Defense increases its involvement in the fight against drug trafficking. The Navy will intervene in anti-drug operations at the request of the Prosecutor's Office.
Until now the military only intervened by order of a judge of the National Court. The fact that the Navy could intervene in the framework of an investigation directed by the Public Ministry was one of the demands that the special anti- drug prosecutor, Rosa Ana Morán, publicly raised after the death of two civil guards run over by a drug boat in Barbate (Cáidz)