The local committee of the police union, SUP, has complained to the provincial police headquarters that they are lacking equipment and training to deal with Ebola cases.

The reason being is that they consider that they are also on the “front line” for two reasons: regular passenger traffic from North Africa and their staffing of the temporary illegal immigrant centres.

The police officers feel vulnerable, claims the SUP, and therefore demand that the Government provides equipment and training so that – in the worst of circumstances; somebody turns up with Ebola – no police officer, if infected, could be accused of negligence.

On the other hand, Salvamento Marítimo and Cruz Roja, who are the first people to deal with illegal immigrants, say that they are fully equipped and trained to deal with a possible Ebola case.

Local police officers complain that the only training that they have received at the Motril police station was a 20-minute theory course on the subject. Furthermore, the only equipment that they have at the moment, should they be confronted by a passenger showing symptoms of Ebola, are rubber gloves, apparently…

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)