Home Department written question – answered at on 6 May 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
(1) what the cost to the public purse was of the recent police operation at the Iona School, Sneinton; and whether there is to be a charge to the public purse for the school's repair and refurbishment required as a consequence of the demonstration;
(2) whether charges have been brought in relation to the recent demonstration at the Iona School, Sneinton; and what reports she has received on whether demonstrators forced their way into the main school rather than adjacent units.
I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation. The costs relating to a police operation is a matter for the chief officer of the force concerned.
The police have a duty to facilitate peaceful protest, but balanced against this is their duty to prevent the commission of offences.
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Margaret Wiedemann
Posted on 7 May 2009 3:10 pm (Report this annotation)
The questions being asked locally are why the police forced entry rather than getting a key from the caretaker and who is going to pay for the damage. While these can't be answered during the investigation, it would be good to know that they were going to be addressed, and in a robust way.