Police in Jay Slater search are drafting in volunteers for 'massive' operation

Police plan to conduct a “massive search” for missing Jay Slater in Tenerife on Saturday. The Tenerife Civil Guard has called on volunteer associations and members of the public skilled in similar searches to join the search effort as the hunt for the missing teen passes its 11th day.

Police chief Angel Sanz Coronado told press on Friday a “massive” organised search will be begin at 9am on Saturday. He 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, June 29 at 9am. 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 said that anyone wishing to join the search effort should contact the Civil Guard via telephone before 8pm on Friday. “Volunteers must contact the Civil Guard by telephone (0034) 696434031 before 8pm on Friday, June 28,” they said.

The force clarified that it was not asking inexperienced members of the public to join the search, but that it was asking experts in the type of terrain in the area as well as professional volunteers like firefighters and civil protection workers.

Jay was reported missing on June 17 after leaving a rave festival alongside two British men the previous weekend, with whom he stayed in an Airbnb before reportedly attempting to travel home. Local police launched a search the same day, with national authorities and volunteers joining in the days following, and Jay's mother, father and brother have now landed on the Spanish island.