Tories question Police conduct in Epping

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Shadow Policing Minister Matt Vickers said he wouldn't like to see the police ''doing anything that would frustrate the situation or make it worse'.' It comes as the Chief Constable of Essex Police has denied that officers drove counter-protesters to a demonstration outside a hotel housing asylum seekers after claims made by Nigel Farage.   Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00And obviously there's still questions to be asked about what has and hasn't gone on.

00:03I wouldn't like to see the police doing anything that could frustrate the situation

00:06or make it worse in any which way or shape or form.

00:09The police should be policing without fear or favour.

00:12We know that people who arrive in the country illegally from some of these countries

00:16have very, well, they commit a very disproportionate amount of crime.

00:19So there are consequences to this.

00:21The reality is that since Labour came to power,

00:23the number of people arriving in this country hasn't gone up a little bit.

00:26It's gone up hugely.

00:27There's nearly 50% more people arriving in the country illegally.

00:32There are more people in hotels.

00:34That number was getting reduced before the election.

00:36It's now going up.

00:38And of those people that arrive illegally, less of them are being removed.

00:40It has a huge cost for the taxpayer.

00:43It has a huge cost for public services.

00:45It has a huge cost for the availability of homes in this country.

00:47We heard the Prime Minister earlier in the week saying

00:49there's loads of homes around for these guys to stay.

00:51That's just not the case.

00:52There are real consequences for communities to uncontrolled illegal immigration.

00:57There are real consequences for the people that have been in the country.

00:58There are real consequences for the people that have been in the country.

00:59There are real consequences for the people that have been in the country.

01:01There are real consequences for the people that have been in the country.

01:03There are real consequences for the people that have been in the country.

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