There were 12 persons in detention and 165 people watching over them at the detention centres last month, according to information given in Parliament.

Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela said that the cetention centres had 149 detention officers, nine soldiers and seven civilians last month.

Twelve people were in detention, he told Nationalist MP Beppe Fenech Adami.

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