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Guardia Civil practice run for detentions at sea on Costa Almeria

By Cathy Elelman • Published: 17 Dec 2019 • 19:08

REALISTIC: The simulation recreated the sighting, localisation, tracking and interception of a boat. CREDIT: Guardia Civil Almeria

THE Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency have carried out a joint air and sea exercise on the Costa Almeria as a practice run for intercepting boats and making onboard detentions.
Members of the Guardia’s air and sea units took part in the exercise, along with customs agents, which saw them simulate the sighting, localisation, tracking and interception of a craft and its occupants.
The simulation was preceded by several coordination meetings between the participating units to set out the guidelines and to design the exercise exactly as if it were a real situation.

CREDIT: Guardia Civil Almeria

The exercise in Almerian waters was a great success, the Guardia Civil said, and had served to perfect the protocols for actions alongside the Customs Surveillance Service and optimize response times.

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Cathy Elelman

Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.

Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.

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