Maritime Civil Guard gets new vessel to patrol the Strait of Gibraltar

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Maritime Civil Guard gets new vessel to patrol the Strait of Gibraltar: "A new Civil Guard maritime group is to patrol the Strait of Gibraltar in search of the criminals involved in people trafficking and drug traffickers.

A team of 32 lead by a commandant will use the ‘Rio Miño’ patrol boat to make up the new group from April. They will be based in Cádiz. The new service comes in addition to the new Guardia Civil ocean going boat, ‘Rio Segura’ has upped the operative capacity in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, presented the ‘Rio Miño’ in a ceremony on the quayside in Cádiz on Saturday. The boat has been constructed specifically for the job, can carry a crew of 39 people and carry upto 80 more when it attends to a possible ship sinking.

Rubalcaba said that the Maritime Guardia Civil ‘had done a better than good job since 2006’, the day when the mafias started directing operations to the Strait, rather than to the Canary Islands."

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