Spain’s elite police force demands to be deployed in Andalucia to combat narcos after an officer is killed with a military assault weapon

A SPECIALIST Policia Nacional Unit wants to combat narcotraffickers operating in Campo de Gibraltar, but claims that the Interior Ministry of Spain has blocked them.

You can also find out more about the following: El Mundo Newspapers reported that the Police Intervention Unit was on standby and ready to deploy to any part of the country, if needed.

It is equipped with weapons of warfare, special ballistic clothing and vehicles to stop drug trafficking gangs off the South Coast.

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UIP has reportedly requested to intervene at least five times, but its requests have not been heeded.

The Interior Ministry said that ‘there has been no request in that regard’.

The UIP first wanted to be involved when two Guardia Civil agents were killed by a narcoboat in Barbate, in February 2024.

We got nothing but silence as a response. El Mundo The story was told.

A trafficker fired at a Policia Nacional agent who was trying enter a Sevilla Industrial Estate in Seville.

The officer was severely wounded after the man fired with a weapon.

As problems worsen, the UIP branch of SUP police union expressed its anger towards the Interior Ministry.

A source told El Mundo“We can’t understand why our Ministry will not send us to the areas that are most affected by the drug trade to work with colleagues on the ground.”

UIP vehicles allow them to reach areas with low water flow, which are hard to access for conventional units because of the terrain. These areas are popular for narcoboats.

The helmets are also equipped with shields and ballistics that can withstand bullets of war calibre, such as the ones used by drug dealers in Campo de Gibraltar.

“We have warned for years that Campo de Gibraltar and surrounding areas are becoming difficult to police, where drugs are rampant and where criminal organisations are acting with intolerable impunity. These criminal organisations are displaying weapons of warfare and resources that are far superior than those of the State Security Forces and Corps which serve in demarcation”, stated the SUP union.

“It’s urgent to strengthen police units with UIP agents who have, among their missions, the prevention and maintenance of citizen safety, and the restoration of that security, and actions in situations of declared alert police, for the commission or crimes of a common criminal nature, or terrorist, as well the establishment of controls, and other police devices.”

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