Wednesday, October 04, 2006
New Episode of Tension Between Police and Army
The immigrant retention center at Las Raíces in Tenerife, yesterday, was once again the scene of events that show the lack of coordination between the Ministry of the Interior and that of Defence, says this report in Canarias7.
Around mid-day yesterday, says the report, two National Police vans turned up at the center as reinforcements, in what was to be a routine change of personnel. Defence turned it into a problem, by detaining the vehicles and asking the 15 police for their personal ID. For obvious reasons, police do not show personal ID, especially when they are in uniform, in clearly marked vans and have their professional badges.
Apparently, it took two or three phone calls to diffuse the situation and for the police to be allowed to enter the center in the second incident between the two security services recently. (And you'd have thought they were on the same side, too.)
Nuevo episodio de tensión entre policías y militares en Las Raíces
