Thread: British Abroad Spain makes the most arrests

Brits abroad were most likely to be arrested in Spain last year, with a total of 1,745 detained in the year ending March 2011.
British expats and holidaymakers in Spain were also most likely to need consular assistance.
However, proportionate to visitor numbers, the place Britons were more likely to be arrested was Thailand, according to new figures.

The total number of arrests worldwide reached 5,700 last year, dipping slightly from 6,439 the previous year and 6,919 in 2008-09. But while the number of arrests fell, the figures released by the Foreign Office show that Britons are getting into other difficulties while on holiday or living abroad. More Britons required hospital treatment abroad, even though the number of visits fell.
Tourists were most likely to die in the Philippines, 84 per cent through natural causes. In total 374 Britons died in Thailand, just 64 per cent from natural causes.
There was a slight increase in the total number of Britons who died abroad, 5,972 up from 5,930 in 2009-10 and 5,629 in 2008-09.

But despite the risk of expensive medical treatment and repatriation, as many as one in six Britons still travel abroad uninsured.

Furthermore, two-thirds of Britons do not always find out the laws of the country they are visiting before they go, leaving them at risk for such exotic crimes as wearing camouflage in Barbados, wearing a bikini in the streets of Barcelona and making satirical jokes about the Thai royal family.
Should they get caught out, 32 per cent of Britons are not aware that they would be prosecuted under local law if they broke the rules away from home, a poll from the Foreign Office found.

Six per cent thought they would be prosecuted under UK law, 22 per cent believed it would depend on the country they were in and four per cent admitted to not knowing at all.
Minister for Europe David Lidlington said: ‘We work hard to warn British nationals about the consequences of breaking the law abroad so it is really encouraging to see the overall number of cases of arrests and drug arrests falling.

‘Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and in some cases dangerous, and sentences can be much tougher than in the UK.

Brainless and unnecessary. Some folk just should not be given passports!

I agree.
Is Spain our Bali do you think ?

Bali has some areas areas, I wouldnt knock it and have to say I find the Balinese much nicer than the Spainards as a nation but thats just me, Hope I dont offend any Spanish

No I don't mean that, I love Bali and really enjoyed our time there. I meant that British 'yobs' tend to go to Spain and here ours go to Bali.

ah right, yes I guess cheap booze cheap everything, mind its cheaper for us Brits now to go to Thailand than Spain with the euro and that

And we can get our teeth fixed on the cheap as well.

Originally Posted by ophidian

And we can get our teeth fixed on the cheap as well.

Where Thailand or Bali? As anone done that gone overseas for treatment?

Thailand seems to be the destination of choice for cheap dental work. I haven't had anything done myself but wouldn't be worried about it.

I nip over to Bali after work a few times a year for me milk teeth to be fixed, cheap as, good as, great beer after