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The case of the Top Cops who went to a meeting - on a luxury cruise ship!
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Three senior Police officers attended last month a meeting - on a luxury cruise liner!
This was to do with the European Association of Airport and Seaport Police Conference which was held in early April on board the P&O Cruise ship Oriana. The cruise liner set sail from Southampton on a 3-night cruise visiting Belgium and France before returning to Southampton. The conference taking place during the course of the cruise, but it is not recalled that this has been made public in Gibraltar.
It is also known that a senior officer of the RGP is the Vice-President of the Aviation Group of this association and should be well up to date with all aspects of airport security around the world and how European airports in particular apply their security procedures.
Last year when the 35th European Association of Airport and Seaport Police Conference was held in Gibraltar, it is interesting to note that the Commissioner of Police, in a key note speech at the conference, said 'that in this era where the threat of terrorism reaches every corner of the globe, it is extremely important that law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders with responsibility for security and policing of sea and airports convene to discuss issues of mutual concern and share experiences together with any innovations on how to prevent, deter and detect any act of terrorism or other security issue that can cause harm to a nation'.
They have come back to Gibraltar from the latest conference clearly implementing a downgrading of the security at the airport terminal, with no apparent information to the public or the press, apart from some cryptic answers to questions we asked some weeks ago.
Although they told us that there was an armed police presence while the air terminal was open, we have established that this is not the case, judging by the findings of a reporter who has again been keeping a watchful eye on what goes on at the terminal.
This is obviously a matter of general public concern, without forgetting those who work at the terminal.
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