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HM Revenue & Customs SBA Customs vehicle. Sovereign Base Areas Customs and Immigration is a semi-autonomous branch of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of the United Kingdom. It has jurisdiction over Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus, administered as a Sovereign Base Area, and home to British Forces Cyprus.
Map of Akrotiri, Western Sovereign Base Area, BFPO 57 Map of Dhekelia, Eastern Sovereign Base Area, BFPOs 58 & 59. Akrotiri and Dhekelia cover 3% of the land area of Cyprus, a total of 254 km 2 (98 sq mi) (split 123 km 2 (47 sq mi) (48.5%) at Akrotiri and 131 km 2 (51 sq mi) (51.5%) at Dhekelia). Akrotiri and Dhekelia have a border of 48 km (30 ...
Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia: Eastern Sovereign Base Area: 1960: Ayios Nikolaos Station: British Forces Cyprus: Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia: Eastern Sovereign Base Area: 1960: The Joint Service Signal Unit (JSSU). JSSU is a static communications organisation maintaining secure links from Cyprus to the rest of ...
The British military operates seventeen military facilities in two 'sovereign base areas' on Cyprus, [1] Akrotiri and Dhekelia, which are host to 2,290 British personnel. [24] There are also four bases in Germany and one each in Gibraltar , Jersey , Lithuania , Estonia , Czech Republic and Norway , [ 1 ] with the Norwegian base, Camp Viking ...
(Sovereign Base Areas) Administration ISO 3166 country code Akrotiri and Dhekelia: Two sovereign base areas administered as a single British overseas territory by the Commander of British Forces Cyprus, reporting to the Ministry of Defence. Permanent Cypriot population, as well as British military personnel and their families.
Dhekelia Cantonment (Greek: Φρουρά Δεκέλειας, Turkish: Dikelya Kantonu), also simply named Dhekelia, is a military base in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus, administered as the Sovereign Base Areas.
The Sovereign Base Areas Police is the local civilian police force for the British controlled Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus.
Squires was promoted to air vice-marshal on 1 September 2022, when he was appointed Commander of British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas. [20] He will take up the appointment of Director of the Military Aviation Authority in March 2025.