Asylum Seeker Hotels (449A/24)
Request
1/ When the Home Office house asylum/refugee in a hotel within your forces area, the Police/Fire Brigade/local NHS all 3 services pay a visit to each hotel being used by the Home Office, where they are offered a priority service to them should they need to contact you, this is regarding your Police force only.
2/ If your force has arranged a priority service to each hotel, can you confirm that your force is fully aware of the location of every hotel used within your forces area.
3/ If your force is fully aware that these hotels are solely for the accommodation of refugees/asylum seekers can you confirm.
If your forces computer records are checked to enable you to:
- Be aware of the number of times these hotels have been attended by your force, so you will have records that are easily checked for the type of offences you attended for, so you will know what offensives asylum seekers/refugees have been involved in.
Response
For Question 1 and Question 3:
Please be advised that you have contacted the Freedom of Information Department. This department only deals with FOI requests and your enquiry is not a request for information under the FOI Act therefore, unfortunately on this occasion, we are unable to assist with your enquiry. Please be advised that this is not a valid Freedom of information Act request as it does not fulfil Section 8 of the Act. It is not a request for specific recorded information
1/ When the Home Office house asylum/refugee in a hotel within your forces area, the Police/Fire Brigade/local NHS all 3 services pay a visit to each hotel being used by the Home Office, where they are offered a priority service to them should they need to contact you, this is regarding your Police force only.
Section 8 – Not valid applied
2/ If your force has arranged a priority service to each hotel, can you confirm that your force is fully aware of the location of every hotel used within your forces area.
No information held the force does not arrange a priority service to these types of hotels.
3/ If your force is fully aware that these hotels are solely for the accommodation of refugees/asylum seekers can you confirm.
If your forces computer records are checked to enable you to:
- Be aware of the number of times these hotels have been attended by your force, so you will have records that are easily checked for the type of offences you attended for, so you will know what offensives asylum seekers/refugees have been involved in.
Section 8 – Not valid applied
As recommended as good practice by the Information Commissioner’s Office a version of this response may be published on the West Midlands Police website.
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