European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police Marine Section have arrested two local men for possession of a commercial quantity of tobacco and for being knowingly concerned in the attempted exportation of the tobacco.
Shortly after 5pm on Sunday the 8th September 2013 officers of the RGP diving team were alerted to a locally registered vessel off the South Mole believed to be carrying tobacco.
Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police Criminal Marine Section have rescued two Spanish Nationals at sea. The two men were adrift in a small vessel fourteen miles east of Gibraltar in the early hours of Monday the 9th of September.
At 2.30am on Monday 9th September the RGP’s Command and Dispatch unit received a call from a Spanish national claiming to be adrift off Gibraltar’s eastern seaboard in a small fishing vessel. The caller informed the RGP control room that the vessel’s engine had stopped and that both he and a companion were adrift. The vessel and its occupants had put to sea from La Linea de La Concepcion, Spain, in the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September.
The Care Agency and Royal Gibraltar Police are conducting an alcohol awareness campaign ahead of next week’s National Day Celebrations. The theme of the campaign is ‘Enjoy your day...Stay safe’ and it will follow last year’s campaign which was so well received.