Essex, police and Bell Hotel
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Police commissioner joins council to demand closure of asylum hotels after 'multiple serious incidents' - Epping council leader Chris Whitbread claimed: ‘Repeated warnings to the Home Office about the
A man who allegedly drove his vehicle through two yards before crashing into a person’s driveway in Essex early Monday was arrested on a charge of drunk driving, police said.
An Ipswich man injured when police said his car crashed into an Essex homeowner’s property early Monday morning was later arrested at the hospital.
Essex Police said they need to speak to Martin Peagram, 33, and Philip Curson, 52, after clashes between protesters and police outside Epping's Bell Hotel.
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Essex disorder was not 'troubling one-off', police federation boss says
Disorder in Essex was a “signal flare” of rising unrest and exposes cracks in police forces across the country, the head of a police body said. There has been a series of demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault this month.
The head of the Police Federation, Tiff Lynch, said officers were likely to be taken away from neighbourhood duties
Essex Police have already spent £100,000 policing unrest in Epping as they’re forced to draft in support from neighbouring forces after the protests turned ugly
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