Prague, Nov 2 (CTK) – The prison service will replace the police guarding the detention centre in Drahonice, north Bohemia, on Tuesday, for which Justice Minister Robert Pelikan (ANO) has released 70 prison service employees at the request of the Interior Ministry, foreigner police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova told CTK Monday.
They will work in four shifts and will stay in Drahonice till the end of February 2016, she added.
“The prison service there (in Drahonice) will perform the patrolling duty instead of the police,” Rendlova said.
“The staff are being called up to perform the police task. They will be used to guard the facility,” she added.
The prison service staff are already being trained for the task, Rendlova said.
The former prison compound in Drahonice has the capacity of 240 beds. Roughly one half of it is already filled.
The foreigner police have said 136 migrants are now accommodated there.
In mid-October, the government approved the decree on the use of the prison service to guard the detention facilities. A few days before, the Drahonice centre was opened for the migrants’ needs.
Miloslav Koudelny, director of the Refugee Facilities Administration, said Drahonice had been opened so that the migrants could be in walled buildings.
