Just what you need after a long days work or a long day sightseeing is to sit in a hot car and wait over two hours to cross the frontier.
The Industrial action by the Spanish Policía Nacional over a disparity of pay between different sections of the three tier Spanish police force is hitting frontier workers, tourists as well as Gibraltarians heading back to Spain. Tailbacks in Gibraltar have also severley affected internal traffic flow.
The nationwide protest will be resumed in Spain on selected dates during the rest of the month: July 16th-17th, 23rd-24th and 30th-31st.
The Policía Nacional (actually Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, "National Police Corps") is the countrywide urban police agency of Spain.
These forces are under the sole authority of Spain's Ministry of the Interior.
They handle criminal, judicial, terrorism and immigration matters.
The issuing of DNI IDs and passports is restricted to the CNP in all the Spanish territory.
The Grupo Especial de Operaciones ("Special Operations Group") is their special operations brigade, trained against terrorism and security crisis.
Charles Zammit from the 
The GHA’s Pathology Department has now received all the results of the 3,500 blood tests collected in Gibraltar. Laboratories in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US have been engaged in analysing the tests within the time window identified by Julian’s Medical Team at Great Ormond Street.
