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The Cyprus Joint Rescue Coordination Center or JRCC Larnaca (Greek: Κέντρο Συντονισμού Έρευνας και Διάσωσης) is an independent agency of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus and its primary mission is to organize the Cyprus Republic Search and Rescue (SAR) system to co-ordinate to control and direct SAR operations in the region that the Cyprus JRCC is responsible for (which coincides with the Nicosia FIR) so that people whose lives are at risk as a result of aviation or maritime accidents can be located and rescued in the least amount of time.This is achieved by coordinating all the different agencies involved such as the Cyprus Police Aviation Unit the Cyprus Police Port and Marine Police the Cyprus National Guard Naval Command the Cyprus National Guard Air Force Command the Cyprus Civil Defence and other secondary Units acting as a communications agent between them so that they do not conduct overlapping searches and waste time by searching areas already searched by other units and in general help all the different units operate as a single larger in numbers unit eliminating any other problems that might occur when many different units operate without any communications between them.It reports directly to the operational control of the Minister of Defence and it is staffed by qualified personnel of the Cyprus National Guard mainly from the branches of the Navy and the Air Force.