The racism allegations also include him making animal sounds, according to a report by the Home Office's Border and Immigration Agency.
The report says: "The staff member in question regularly referred to detainees as 'Algerian, Moroccan or Egyptian donkey', accompanied by full animal sounds, depending on their country of origin.
"Other statements made by the same officer were 'Donkeys, go back to your country' and 'Keep the crime in your country'".
An audit of immigration removal centres was commissioned after an inquiry by Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Stephen Shaw into the 2005 BBC programme Detention Undercover that made allegations of racism by staff towards detainees.
The Borders and Immigration Agency said its findings "did not support serious allegations of racism or mistreatment of detainees but highlighted areas for improvement with regards to race relations".
The agency's chief executive, Lin Homer, said: "Removing people from the UK, where they have no legal right to be here, is about fairness and enforcing the rules.
"However it is important to treat those being detained with courtesy and dignity, and to effect their removal in the same spirit.
"The Border and Immigration Agency takes any allegation of abuse or misconduct very seriously which is why we commissioned this report."
The sacked officer was based at Lindholme centre, near Doncaster.
A spokesman at the centre confimed: "Racist behaviour will not be tolerated and the officer had recently been dismissed."
The report into Lindholme said: "The relationship between staff and detainees is good. Very few detainees reported any negativity in their day-to-day interactions with staff.
"However, many detainees commented on a named member of staff, whose behaviour towards them was racist.
"The detainees interviewed felt that this attitude was common amongst officers, but only one particular officer vocalised his views."
It said that although all staff received race relations training, the centre manager must develop a programme for the additional training.
Source: Daily Mail (English)
3 comments:
So it's all about dignity? Well from what I heart and read about people involved in the removal of these 'donkeys', one can only conclude it's still a much to polite term for these people.
They shouting, call names, spit on you, they bite you if they get the change and attack the officers.
But let's all stay very polite and dignified to these people.
Clearly the department of immigration got the memo reminding them that sons of apes and pigs should know their place.
Nutters, the lot.
You guys are pathetic.
I would be mortified if one of my family was abused and insulted by immigration staff.
It's grossly unprofessional conduct, as it appears it was a pattern of behaviour, not an isolated incident. No one in private employment could get away with that, why should a government employee?
He deserved the sack. Political correctness doesn't enter into it...
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