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Police intercept boat with 23 Haitian migrants Weekly News reporter• TWENTY-three people from Haiti were detained on Sunday (January 17) after being smuggled into TCI waters in an undocumented boat. At about 10.15pm officials from the Coastal Radar Station alerted officers of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force that they were tracking a target. Marine branch officers on police boat Sea Guardian immediately responded and intercepted a blue 27 foot vessel, five miles south of Bird Rock.  Additional officers on board police boat Sea Pursuit assisted with transporting the boat and 15 men and eight women to South Dock in Providenciales. The migrants were handed over to the Immigration Department Enforcement Unit and Environmental Health official for immediate assessment, processing and repatriation.

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