SURREY Police and Crime Commissioner Kevin Hurley came under fire for describing The Jungle camps in Calais as “completely un-policed”, during a visit with a BBC camera crew.

Mr Hurley, the former head of counter-terrorism at the City of London Police, spent several hours in the camp with BBC London’s Inside Out team..

The Calais camp, home to around 4,000 migrants, is being dismantled and improved accommodation nearby is being provided for 1,500 refugees.

The remaining inhabitants will be encouraged to leave and seek shelter at reception centres elsewhere in France.

Mr Hurley said: “If I were a returning jihadi, I would smuggle myself in among this group – you’d easily get lost.”

Mr Hurley said the visit was made to continue his campaign for “secure borders”, with the people of Surrey in mind. He claimed police found nearly 400 illegal immigrants in Surrey alone last year.

But the founder of Care4Calais, a UK charity set up to help migrants staying in the camp, dismissed his claims as “the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard”.

Clare Moseley said: “You would have to be the world’s stupidest terrorist to try and enter Britain as a refugee, because when you come as a refugee you are subject to detailed background checks.”

Responding to the criticism Mr Hurley said: “As one has come to expect, my comments have been deliberately misinterpreted by those who don’t find them matching their view of the world.

“It has been no surprise to me that so many of those who dissent have been offensive and most unpleasant to me. I am apparently not allowed to feel alarmed when surrounded by hostile groups of young men when in isolated areas of the Calais camp.”