Brook House is one of two immigration centres run by G4S in Britain and has space for 508 men PANine G4S staff have been suspended from an immigration removal centre after claims of assaults and abuse against migrants. The company has launched an internal inquiry into allegations by BBC’s Panorama programme of “chaos, incompetence and abuse” at the centre near Gatwick airport. The programme has undercover footage of staff at Brook House “mocking, abusing and even assaulting” immigration detainees at the facility. It is claimed that one member of staff threatened to throw a detainee into a stairwell. Jerry Petherick, managing director for custodial and detention services at G4S , said: “There is no place for the type of conduct described in the allegations anywhere…

Source: The Times September 01, 2017 11:03 UTC