In the area around the local university, a group of three female nursing students exchanged knowing looks when asked by the Daily Express about the reputation of the police sent to Calais to secure the border.

“They are known as boys that really like girls, but not for serious things just for a night,” a blonde nurse explained.

Although they are barely in their twenties she and her friends regularly encounter officers on nights out in the town who harass them for sex.

“Every time I’m with a bunch of ladies and the police ask if we need to go along with them to the lodge,” a blonde nurse defined.

“They will tell you ‘come with me’ without even asking your name, it’s very direct.”

One of their buddies, aged 19, determined to return with a 39-year-old officer after he made an advance on her.

“She went to the hotel and there were girls everywhere, he was direct, trying to do something sexual, touching her without asking. She felt uncomfortable and left,” the scholar added.

When we requested whether or not the law enforcement officials drafted in to guard the borders have been higher identified for chasing girls than coping with the migrant concern there was a collective nod and a refrain of “oui”.

The girls may reel off the resorts the officers have been identified to remain at with the 4* Hotel B&B the Daily Express visited prime of the listing.

One continued: “They are supposed to protect but they treat women as objects and are sexually aggressive which makes them lose credibility.

“If say they are saying what’s wrong and what’s right but don’t do the same thing in their personal life, they lose credibility professionally. After a while people just can’t trust them anymore.”