Cyprus

(asked on 9th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many clearance operations there were to remove equipment used in the illegal killing of birds from the Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area in (a) September and (b) October of each of the last five years.


Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 12th March 2015

The information requested is provided in the following table.

September

October

Number of Anti Mist netting
Operations[1]

Number of seized
Mist nets

Number

of seized
Lime sticks

Number of
Arrests

Number of Anti Mist netting
Operations[2]

Number of seized
Mist nets

Number

of seized
Lime sticks

Number of
Arrests

2010-11

30 (6)

112

37

15

61 (7)

173

115

16

2011-12

52 (5)

159

193

10

32 (5)

161

97

10

2012-13

45 (4)

125

288

12

57 (5)

131

26

9

2013-14

32 (5)

116

468

18

29 (6)

99

48

3

2014-15

48 (4)

91

114

11

43 (8)

81

142

18

[1] Large scale clearance operations, possibly involving resources outside of the normal Sovereign Base Area (SBA) Police assets

[2] Large scale clearance operations, possibly involving resources outside of the normal SBA Police assets

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