A Reform-controlled council is to draft in private security guards to help police protect locals amid a row over the expansion of a major migrant camp.
Essex County Council said it will provide ‘security operatives’ in Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford after it was announced that the capacity of the Wethersfield asylum centre would be increased by 50 per cent.
Council leader Peter Harris attacked the Home Office for running ‘a fleet of 17 minibuses’ to the three nearest towns and cities to the former RAF airfield.
He claimed there were ‘concerns for community safety… particularly among women and girls’, with the capacity of the centre
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