Spanish Police Brace for Surge as Morocco-Spain Ferry Service Resumes

14 April 2022 – byPrince@Bladi · 1 min read

Even before the announcement of the resumption of maritime passenger traffic with Morocco from Algeciras, the JUPOL police union denounced the lack of personnel to effectively cope with a large influx of Moroccans, at this particular time of the end of Ramadan and the Easter holidays.

"The shortage of personnel suffered by the Algeciras police station is critical at the maritime border, which suggests a chaotic situation as soon as passenger traffic with Morocco resumes. More than 300 police officers have requested to leave the Campo de Gibraltar this summer," the union explains to La Razòn.

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This lack of manpower leads to an overload of work for the agents, to which are added the unfulfilled promises of the government concerning the creation of a special unit to ensure security in the Campo de Gibraltar, specifies JUPOL, adding that this situation affects the work of the agents and the quality of the services they provide to citizens.

For all these reasons, the union urges the Ministry of the Interior to "urgently and exceptionally create a unit to ensure security at the maritime border of Algeciras, because the police do not have enough personnel to do so, even less in this period when thousands of passengers are expected".

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