"They don't even arrest fugitives from justice," said John Cannel, executive director of the New Jersey Law Revision Commission, a state commission reviewing the state's laws.

But Israeli officials maintain that the Palestinian security forces in those cities have lagged in stopping groups determined to attack Israel and in arresting fugitives that Israel says have carried out attacks or were planning them.

Furthermore, units of the Finnish Border Guard units at airports often arrest wanted individuals or fugitives at the border, and the Finnish Customs seizes e.g. weapons, false documents or explosives in addition to wanted individuals.

A14 Challenging Extradition Policy A Federal appeals court in San Francisco has heard arguments in a case that could force the Government to renegotiate most of its international extradition treaties and abandon its century-old practices for arresting and detaining fugitives found in the United States.

The document at issue is a 1989 legal opinion by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which concluded that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation may legally arrest fugitives overseas without the permission of the country involved.

Ms. Del Ponte said the tribunal's attention would now turn to other war crime cases as well as the need to arrest other fugitives.

He was frequently called upon to arrest fugitives or criminals on board ship in the Hamoaze, or in the Sound, armed with the silver oar, symbol of his authority, and his oaken truncheon.

Policy on Foreign Fugitives Q. Mr. President, The L.A. Times is reporting today that the Justice Department has given the F.B.I. the go-ahead to arrest fugitives in foreign countries without the foreign country's consent.

In October it became known that the Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo in July authorizing the FBI to arrest fugitives overseas without the permission of the host country.

In return, the Justice Department agreed that it would consider granting lawmakers limited access to the document, a 1989 legal opinion that concluded that Federal agents could legally arrest fugitives overseas without the consent of the country involved.