Police arrested five asylum seekers at Penally camp last night (Tuesday, November 10) for assaults.

Eye witnesses reported shortly before 10 pm, that there was a large police presence at the facility, called in to assist security with a disturbance.

A spokesperson for Dyfed-Powys Police said: “During the evening of Tuesday, November 10, a disturbance was reported at the Penally Asylum Accommodation Centre.

“Officers attended and five males were arrested for minor assaults. There are no suspects outstanding and enquiries are ongoing.”

One person who witnessed the scene, stated that a female police officer was seen leaving the camp after arrests had been made carrying out a ‘bent out of shape’ metal hoover pipe.

It’s the latest incident at the facility to require a large police presence attend the village’s former Military of Defence camp, which was repurposed in September by the Home Office, to house up to 250 asylum seekers.

Two men were arrested from the camp on October 20 - one on suspicion of affray, and the other of assault, after a disturbance within the Asylum Accommodation Centre that saw over a dozen police vehicles in attendance.

The two males were later released on police bail with the condition not to enter Pembrokeshire.

Last month, during Wales’ ‘fire-break’ lockdown police were also forced to warn asylum seekers staying at the Penally facility to return to the camp after breaking Covid-19 restrictions on the night of October 27, after a number of men from the facility were seen to be ‘shouting and drinking’ whilst walking ‘arm in arm’ through the village one evening, in what one local resident described as seemingly a protest against the Welsh Government’s regulations.Only days after the asylum seekers took up residency at the camp, police officers attended an incident on September 30?where a man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of arson and causing criminal damage inside the facility.