Incardinated in the General Commissariat of the Judicial Police, and divided into two specialized groups according to the characteristics of the requisition, the section has been dedicated since 2004 to the location and detention of the accused.
The leadership in locating fugitives has motivated the National Police to assume the presidency of the European Network of Active Search Teams for Fugitives -ENFAST-, a network made up of 28 Member States of the European Union to carry out immediate actions aimed at the arrest of escaped
Recently, and in just one week, the National Police have carried out six different operations -Barcelona, Alicante, Madrid, Cádiz, Santa Cruz de la Palma and Switzerland- which have allowed the arrest of seven wanted for different crimes such as murder, injury or money laundering
In La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) the alleged perpetrator of a double murder committed last month in Malta has been arrested and, in another operation, an individual who killed his ex has been arrested in Santa Cruz de la Palma couple in Colombia to keep custody of their daughter
