Interior allocates more police officers for the Tarajal Border in Ceuta

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This is a permanent addition that comes from units such as the Clandestine Immigration Response Brigade (BRIC) and the Border Police, as revealed by the Ceuta Chief of Police,

, and confirmed to this medium police sources.

This Friday morning, the Ceuta National Police Headquarters presented Operation Minerva 2022 of the

, which leads the

in Spain .

Every year and coinciding with Operation Crossing the Strait (OPE), agents from member countries of the

European Union

provide a service reinforcing control over the transit of people in the port of Ceuta, between June 15 and December 15

September, deploying in the Autonomous City

28 police officers provided by FRONTEX who will work in the port of Ceuta during Operation Crossing the Strait 2022.

The task of the European agents assigned to

will be to "pursue the criminal expressions of human trafficking, trafficking in human beings and irregular immigration, as well as support the control of regular flows of migrants" usual during the OPE.

To find "the balance between security and fluidity" the FRONTEX troops will not establish "second filters" once those of the National Police or the Civil Guard have been overcome.

Before proceeding with the formal greeting to the European agents, the chief of Police of Ceuta, Javier Nogueroles, has revealed that from

a reinforcement of 20 fixed agents will be incorporated

of the Border Police and the Clandestine Immigration Response Brigade (BRIC).

Police sources have confirmed to this medium this reinforcement in the permanent staff of the Superior Police Headquarters in Ceuta.

A demand that the police unions and the professional associations of civil guards had been demanding from the Ministry of the Interior before the new opening of the land borders of Ceuta and Melilla

.

At the moment these incorporations are going to be seen in the staff of the National Police, it is still up in the air if the Interior plans any incorporation of Civil Guard agents to strengthen the staff of the armed institute on the border of Tarajal de Ceuta.

The trade union organizations also demanded that they should be provided with greater technical training in view of the

at the border crossings with Morocco.

In Melilla, different national and local police unions and professional associations of the Civil Guard formed the platform

a platform that was formed in the face of the uncertainty generated in the face of the reopening in May and to give know the problems derived from the new challenge in the management of land borders.

The group criticized that they do not have the necessary means and ask that the State Security Forces and Bodies

to carry out their work, both at the borders and in the two autonomous cities.

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