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Post by fretslider on Aug 8, 2015 16:47:09 GMT -5
Dave sent a few dogs and some extra wire to Calais before disappearing off on his hols. No crisis here you might think.
French police in Calais have backed calls to bring in the British army to help tackle the deepening migrant crisis. Bruno Noel, head of the Alliance union for police deployed to Calais’ port and Eurotunnel site, said his force is “doing Britain’s dirty work”, but that the situation could soon become unmanageable as migrant numbers swell and police ranks are further depleted.
“We have only 15 permanent French border police at the Eurotunnel site. Can you imagine how derisory this is given the situation? So I say, why not bring in the British army, and let them work together with the French?” he said. The call for British reinforcements was first made by Kevin Hurley, police and crime commission for Surrey police, who proposed “sending in the Gurkhas”. Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, suggested dispatching the British army over the Channel to check lorries to stop people illegally entering Britain, calling the situation around Calais, “virtually lawless”.
The suggestions drew howls of complaint in France, with critics arguing it would be a total "non-starter" and a slight to French national pride to have UK forces in a port France only recaptured from its cross-Channel neighbour in 1558, when it was known as “the brightest jewel in the English crown”.
But Mr Noel, 40, disagrees. He and his colleagues have spent a gruelling two months trying to keep migrants out of lorries queuing to board trains entering the Channel Tunnel, dealing with striking French ferry workers, and in the past two weeks seeking to stop migrants intruding en masse into the huge Eurotunnel site and hurling themselves onto slow-moving freight trains – at grave risks to their lives. Anyone who doubted their resolve was provided a spectacular example on Thursday when it emerged that Abdul Rahman Haroun, a Sudanese migrant, dodged hundreds of security cameras and speeding trains to walk 31 miles in the Channel Tunnel to Folkestone, before British police arrested him just short of the exit.
Mr Noel says few spare a thought for the French police, who are “physically, psychologically and morally exhausted” from their part in this human drama.
“In all seriousness, we cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. And he is deeply concerned that promises of more British-funded fences, security cameras and sniffer dogs will prove insufficient. “Today, we are supported by mobile gendarme and anti-riot CRS units of around 500 men. But at the end of the month, the holiday period will be over in France and there will be, as always, an upsurge in social movements around the country,” he said. “When these mobile units are sent all round France to keep the peace, who will be left in Calais?”
Mr Noel and his men take particular offence to suggestions from some quarters in the UK that they are not being firm or effective on the ground. “It’s clear we are doing Britain’s dirty work here in France as the problem comes from your side of the Channel. The most difficult and dangerous part of the job is being done by the French police, not the British. So we take criticism very badly,” he said. “There is a sense of anger, including towards the British government, which is not doing everything it could to help us. French police are doing their best given their means, I can guarantee that if the situation was reversed and the British police had to deal with this issue, it would be the same.”
David Cameron, while conceding “there’s lot more to do”, tried to talk up Britain’s contribution, which includes sending 100 UK Border Force officers to Calais, saying: "We have got more fencing, we've got more police officers, more sniffer dogs, more guards, better security, and we are making progress.”
But David Gournay a Calais police lieutenant coordinating 200 police officers outside the Eurotunnel and port zones, said that progress in British eyes was ironically set to make his life more difficult. “More fencing and more people to check lorries going to the UK will result in making it even harder for migrants to get through, as a result we’ll have more and more to deal with. It might be good for Britain, but it will only make our job harder.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11791896/Bring-in-the-British-Army-to-help-us-say-Calais-police.html
The army has the manpower...
French police in Calais have backed calls to bring in the British army to help tackle the deepening migrant crisis. Bruno Noel, head of the Alliance union for police deployed to Calais’ port and Eurotunnel site, said his force is “doing Britain’s dirty work”, but that the situation could soon become unmanageable as migrant numbers swell and police ranks are further depleted.
“We have only 15 permanent French border police at the Eurotunnel site. Can you imagine how derisory this is given the situation? So I say, why not bring in the British army, and let them work together with the French?” he said. The call for British reinforcements was first made by Kevin Hurley, police and crime commission for Surrey police, who proposed “sending in the Gurkhas”. Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, suggested dispatching the British army over the Channel to check lorries to stop people illegally entering Britain, calling the situation around Calais, “virtually lawless”.
The suggestions drew howls of complaint in France, with critics arguing it would be a total "non-starter" and a slight to French national pride to have UK forces in a port France only recaptured from its cross-Channel neighbour in 1558, when it was known as “the brightest jewel in the English crown”.
But Mr Noel, 40, disagrees. He and his colleagues have spent a gruelling two months trying to keep migrants out of lorries queuing to board trains entering the Channel Tunnel, dealing with striking French ferry workers, and in the past two weeks seeking to stop migrants intruding en masse into the huge Eurotunnel site and hurling themselves onto slow-moving freight trains – at grave risks to their lives. Anyone who doubted their resolve was provided a spectacular example on Thursday when it emerged that Abdul Rahman Haroun, a Sudanese migrant, dodged hundreds of security cameras and speeding trains to walk 31 miles in the Channel Tunnel to Folkestone, before British police arrested him just short of the exit.
Mr Noel says few spare a thought for the French police, who are “physically, psychologically and morally exhausted” from their part in this human drama.
“In all seriousness, we cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. And he is deeply concerned that promises of more British-funded fences, security cameras and sniffer dogs will prove insufficient. “Today, we are supported by mobile gendarme and anti-riot CRS units of around 500 men. But at the end of the month, the holiday period will be over in France and there will be, as always, an upsurge in social movements around the country,” he said. “When these mobile units are sent all round France to keep the peace, who will be left in Calais?”
Mr Noel and his men take particular offence to suggestions from some quarters in the UK that they are not being firm or effective on the ground. “It’s clear we are doing Britain’s dirty work here in France as the problem comes from your side of the Channel. The most difficult and dangerous part of the job is being done by the French police, not the British. So we take criticism very badly,” he said. “There is a sense of anger, including towards the British government, which is not doing everything it could to help us. French police are doing their best given their means, I can guarantee that if the situation was reversed and the British police had to deal with this issue, it would be the same.”
David Cameron, while conceding “there’s lot more to do”, tried to talk up Britain’s contribution, which includes sending 100 UK Border Force officers to Calais, saying: "We have got more fencing, we've got more police officers, more sniffer dogs, more guards, better security, and we are making progress.”
But David Gournay a Calais police lieutenant coordinating 200 police officers outside the Eurotunnel and port zones, said that progress in British eyes was ironically set to make his life more difficult. “More fencing and more people to check lorries going to the UK will result in making it even harder for migrants to get through, as a result we’ll have more and more to deal with. It might be good for Britain, but it will only make our job harder.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11791896/Bring-in-the-British-Army-to-help-us-say-Calais-police.html
The army has the manpower...
