Costa de la Luz
New SIVE tower gives surveillance coverage to the Strait
By h.b.
Jul 24, 2007 - 9:14 PM

The state of the art frontier monitoring system SIVE is to be extended in the first half of August to cover the area of Conil.

A new tower is to be placed at Roche to cover a current blind spot in the system used to stop drug and immigrant arrivals on shore between Roche and Caños de Meca at Barbate.

Last week a group of 30 immigrants came ashore in the area in an inflatable boat, 20 of them are still at large and being searched for by the Civil Guard.

Meanwhile the authorities consider that 25% of the Paso del Estrecho plan which sees thousands of Moroccans heading home across the Strait for the summer holidays has been completed.

So far more than 740,000 have made the crossing south in some 189,000 vehicles from the ports of Algeciras, Málaga, Almería and Alicante.