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The Interior Minister has received his Senegalese counterpart that he has also met in Madrid with the Secretary of State for Security the Director General of Police the director of the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) and Civil Guard commanders.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska meets with the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Senegal Jean-Baptiste Tine at the Ministrys headquarters.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has received his Senegalese counterpart in Madrid the Minister of the Interior and Public Security General Jean-Baptiste Tine to whom he thanked the solidity and strength of the bilateral relationship in migratory matters which has described as one of the best examples of cooperation of our environment. That Senegal performs daily on his borders as well as at sea said Grande-Marlaska during the match. The minister has highlighted the importance of this key work to protect the lives of migrants in vulnerability and fight against people traffic networks. You can continue with Spain to prevent deaths in the Sea Senegalese Sea he added. State security forces and bodies have been deployed in Senegal for almost two decades in cooperation with local security forces for the prevention of irregular exits from their coasts as well as for the investigation of irregular immigration criminal networks and in technical training and advice tasks. Deployment is made up of 33 civil guards and 3 national police officers who perform joint patrol work with the support of four vessels a helicopter and 13 off -road vehicles. Periodically an airplane based on Dakar airport and an oceanic ship of the Civil Guard add up to the deployment.
The joint preventive surveillance work has allowed to increase the number of irregular outputs avoided in origin which have passed 700 interceptions in 202 to 10000 in 2024. On the other hand two national police officers participate in the equipment integrated in the team integrated in the joint operating association SECUTION OPERATIVE PARTENARIADARIES two projects financed by the European Union and aimed at the exchange of information and the design of strategies for the fight against migrants trafficking together with the Senegal Security Forces. The two ministers have reaffirmed their willingness to advance in the joint struggle against transnational organized crime as it was plasma in the declaration of intentions signed in August 2024 in Dakar of the President of the Government Pedro Sanchez to Senegal. Both in the framework of the commitments acquired and signatories of the Niamey Declaration to fight determined against traffic and trafficking in persons as in the promotion of international security in the International Alliance for Security Spain and Senegal are called to play a preemine Thursday the Senegalese minister has also met with the Secretary of State for Security Rafael Perez; the general director of the Police Francisco Pardo; the head of the Border Command and Maritime Police Lieutenant General Manuel Navarrete; and the director of the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) Javier Marin.
