The Conservative police commissioner has said that protesters “uphold British values” and “arresting people” simply treats “the symptom and not the cause.”

Hundreds have been arrested over the days as protests has led to riots which has seen a police station burned out and police officers have suffered broken bones.

Since Tuesday there has been many protests and riots in response to three young children were stabbed to death and others are recovering from their wounds.

Donna Jones, a Conservative Party politician who has been Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner said that the protesters have “the desire to protect Britain’s sovereignty, the need to uphold British values and in order to do this stop illegal immigration.”

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The Tory MP said that “arresting people” is only “treating the symptom and not the cause,” she published in a statement on the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s website.

The former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said on Sunday, “I, as a former CEO of the Association of Police & Crime Commissioners, would have heavily advised against a current PCC, let alone the chair, appearing to justify rioting & criminality that police officers are bravely having to deal with right now. Totally unacceptable.”

The statement has since been removed, Liber Democrat MP Danny Chambers said he is “deeply concerned” over Jones comments, he added, “These extreme views make her totally unsuitable to hold this position of responsibility.”