Police Commissioner for Amsterdam-Amstelland, said 23 wanted Britons have already been arrested in the area over the past 18 months.

Liesbeth Huyzer, Police Commissioner for Amsterdam-Amstelland, said 23 wanted Britons have already been arrested in the area over the past 18 months.
She added: "We don't want these criminals to hide out in our region and that's why we are asking the help of the public to get information to arrest more of these fugitives." Police sources said that a series of successful operations in the Costa del Sol and Cyprus had made the Mediterranean “too hot” a territory for criminals on the run. They had turned instead to Holland because it had established drugs and prostitute networks which could be exploited and afforded “the kind of lifestyle they were used to”, sources said. Among those recently captured in Amsterdam was Scotland Yard's most wanted men, Noel Cunningham, who had escaped from a prison van in 2003 as he was escorted from prison to face trial accused of a £1 million armed robbery