Tenerife police have announced a massive search operation for missing Jay Slater tomorrow they are calling on volunteers to join.
It has been organised to start at 9am tomorrow in the area around the village of Masca where the 19-year-old was last seen on June 17.
It specifies it is seeking the cooperation only of volunteer professionals, including firefighters and Civil Protection workers as well as people expert in the type of rough terrain officers have been working in.
Revealing the dramatic new development today, Tenerife Civil Guard police chief Angel Sanz Coronado said: “Following the disappearance on June 17 of the young 19-year-old British man in the area of Masca, belonging to the municipality of Buenavista del Norte, the Civil Guard is prepared to carry out a mass search.
“Given that it is a steep, rocky area, full of uneven terrain and with many ravines, tracks and trails, we request the collaboration of all those Volunteer Associations that can help in this planned search that is intended to be carried out in a directed and coordinated way.
“This massive search will begin on Saturday 29 June at 09:00 hours. A meeting point will be established at the Mirador de la Cruz de Hilda in Masca to start the search in a logical and orderly way along the many paths and ravines that are found in Masca.”
The force added in its statement: “Volunteers must contact the Civil Guard by telephone (0034) 696434031, before 8pm on Friday 28 June.”
A spokesman clarified that it was not asking the inexperienced general public to join the search, only experts in the type of terrain in the area as well as professional volunteers like firefighters and Civil Protection workers.
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