Dyfed Powys Police and Crime Commissioner plans to ask the Home Office to cover the cost of policing asylum seeker protests outside the Stradey Park Hotel.
The cost of policing asylum seeker protests outside Llanelli's Stradey Park Hotel has been revealed by Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner.The commissioner plans to get the money reimbursed by the UK's Home Office, which wanted to accommodate up to 240 asylum seekers at the hotel.A number of arrests were made over the course of several weeks, including when scores of protesters broke into the hotel's grounds.
The Plaid Cymru commissioner said he had written several times to the Home Office expressing his concerns that the hotel was unsuitable for a large number of asylum seekers.He added that the approach had, in his view, "ridden roughshod" over the established "dispersal model", whereby people fleeing conflict in Syria and Afghanistan had been settled in different locations in smaller numbers.
Panel member, Cllr Jonathan Grimes, said he and others had been told that the substantial use of police resources at the Stradey Park Hotel explained why only two police community support officers were present when fighting broke out at a large street fair in Pembroke this month."Fortunately nobody was seriously injured," he said.
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