On 18.08.2021, border guards, members of the crew of the maritime ship MAI 1101, from the Coast Guard, returned home after a mission of about four months, carried out in the Ionian Sea, under the auspices of the European Agency for Police Border and Coast Guard (FRONTEX).
Between 16.04-11.08.2021, the maritime patrol and surveillance ship MAI 1101 of the Coast Guard participated in the rapid border intervention operation "THEMIS 2021", organized under the auspices of FRONTEX (European Agency for Border Police and Coast Guard).
The operation took place in the operational area of Calabria-Crotone, Italy, and the two crews, rotating aboard the Romanian Border Police ship, carried out patrol, surveillance, search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean, along with other EU member states. participants in the mission.
During the operation, the Romanian border police performed 80 missions, during which time the Coast Guard ship carried out over 1,000 patrol hours.
A special mission attended by border guards took place in May, when they intervened with another boat of the Italian Coast Guard, to rescue a number of 223 people, who were transported from Libya with a fishing boat. 110 people were transhipped on the deck of our ship, who were given emergency medical care as well as food and water, until they were taken over by the Italian authorities.
Also, the Romanian Border Police detached within the International Coordination Center - I.C.C. from Rome a liaison officer, who permanently maintained the connection throughout the mission, between the seagoing ship seconded by R.B.P. on the territory of Italy and the Operational Coordination Center of the G.I.B.P.
