The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
The Government have said that “for all his bluster in relation to the GSLP/Liberal Government's magnificent Commonwealth Park development, Selwyn Figueras has not been able to deal with the nub of the issues debated in Parliament on the subject.”
Officers of HM Customs Gibraltar and the City Fire Brigade have attended a three week course which has seen them qualify as Blue Light Driver Standard Response Instructors. The course has been delivered locally by Driving Instructors from HM Customs Gibraltar, Geraldine Celecia and Charles Jaques and assisted on the third week by Mr Robert Brittain, a UK National Standard Response Driver Instructor with the Cheshire Constabulary.
Police Dog ‘LOSS’ arrived in Gibraltar on the 28th October following a four week course with his Handler PC 67 Nicole Buckley at South Yorkshire Police Dog Section.
Yesterday afternoon the RGP executed two search warrants as part of Operation Tauren. As a result of the searches, the police arrested three persons after discovering quantities of controlled drugs.