Law enforcement in the Canary Islands
Law enforcement in the
Recent events
Despite the low crime levels on the Canary Islands, there have been a number of recent events involving the islands' police forces which have made international headlines. On January 10, 1998, the Canary Islands Police on the island of Tenerife charged a German psychologist in connection with a mass suicide[1]
The police forces are often faced with the task of deterring African migrants from illegally landing on the islands. On 7 February 2005, the islands' police force intercepted 227 immigrants off the coast of Tenerife, one of the largest of such groups to be intercepted.[2] In late 2006, a number of other countries, including Italy, Portugal, and Finland, supplied ships and aircraft to assist the Guardia Civil in dealing with the immigrant issue as part of Operation Hera II.[3] On April 10, 2007, Molotov cocktails were thrown at Canary Islands police patrol craft from a boat of 57 African immigrants, all of whom were later arrested when they landed on the islands.[4]
On February 16, 2007, the islands' Civil Guard police arrested an armed man who hijacked a
Notes
- ^ Reuters news article, copied to Factnet headlines Archived 2007-06-13 at the Wayback Machine retrieved on May 9, 2007
- ^ BBC News article retrieved on May 9, 2007
- ^ BBC News article retrieved on May 9, 2007
- ^ CNN article Police: Migrants threw Molotov cocktails at patrol boat retrieved on May 9, 2007
- ^ USA Today article retrieved on May 9, 2007
Sources
- World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by Taylor & Francis. 2004,
- World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, second edition, Gale., 2006
- Sullivan, Larry E. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.