UK Border Force cutter in Mediterranean migrant rescue mission

Join Assistant Director Doug McLellan, Commander, Border Security Squadron of the UK Border Force at SMi's Offshore Patrol Vessels Technology conference and to hear more on recent operations. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) April 08, 2016 - Border Force officers were among a rescue team that saved more than 100 migrants in the Mediterranean. HMC Protector, one of Border Force's cutters, was on patrol for Operation Triton south of Sicily when it was alerted by the Italian Marine Rescue Co-Ordination Centre to a migrant boat in distress.

Join UK Border Force's Assistant Director Doug McLellan at SMi's Offshore Patrol Vessels Technology conference taking place 8th - 9th June in London. The Commander will give an exclusive insight in the technical capabilities of the Cutters for humanitarian missions as well as the on- and off-board systems to monitor busy coastlines and open ocean.

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Offshore Patrol Vessels Technology
8 - 9 June 2016
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Source: http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Border+Force+cutter+in+Mediterranean+migrant+rescue+mission+01062015132534?open

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