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Home Office using dummy plane to practice forcing migrants onto Rwanda flights

2024-01-20 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国新闻原网页

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The Home Office has hired an aircraft hangar and a dummy plane for security officials to practise forcing asylum seekers onto flights to Rwanda, it has emerged.

As the government prepares for deportation flights to take off, security guards have undergone special training programmes to deal with disruptive people.

Migrants are to be escorted one by one from a detention facility on an airbase, The Times reported, before staff mimic scenarios the Home Office expects them to encounter when putting them onboard.

The first Rwanda flight is expected to take off from the Ministry of Defence airfield at Boscombe Down near Salisbury, Wiltshire, where a flight in June 2022 was grounded

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Scenarios staff are practising for include migrants violently refusing to board planes, Extinction Rebellion-style “play dead” protests to block flights and even dirty protests by campaigners outside the airbase.

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The Home Office believes five officers will be needed for each migrant being deported, The Times said.

The training is taking place in an aircraft hangar normally hired for use as a film studio by production firms.

The Home Office told the paper it is vital in order to ensure escorts can respond “professionally to the challenges of removing people with no right to be in the UK”.

A spokesman added: “This includes practical sessions so escorts have the skills they need to deal with different scenarios. As we ramp up removal activity we will continue to ensure new escorts have the training facilities necessary.”

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