This morning the follow-up committee of the Greater Security Plan met at the headquarters of the Government Delegation in Asturias with the objective of resuming the actions of that plan, suspended at the beginning of 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Greater Security Plan was created in 2014 by the Ministry of the Interior and its fundamental objective is the prevention of the main threats to the security of the elderly and to promote their confidence in the State Security Forces and Bodies that, in turn, also improve their response in their actions.
The National Police and Civil Guard give talks and organize meetings in ERA establishments and municipal centers in which agents talk about how to react to cases of mistreatment, burglary, tyranny, theft or scams, or the risks derived from the use of the Internet and new technologies.
For the suspended edition of the year 2020, 101 centers of 38 councils had requested to participate in the Plan: 48 ERA centers and 53 municipal centers. Until the time when the pandemic was declared, the National Police and the Civil Guard had given 25 talks and participated in 32 meetings. In addition, in the first weeks of the state of alarm declared in March 2020, the agents carried out more than 4,000 actions linked to the Greater Plan: from telephone follow-up to food transfer to elderly people.
Today’s meeting was chaired by the delegate of the Government in Asturias, Delia Losa, and in it participated the director of the High Inspection Area of Education and coordinator of the Plan, José Antonio Fernández Espina, the manager of the ERA. Ana Suárez Guerra, the head of the Inspection and Quality Service of the General Directorate of Social and Senior Services of the Government of the Principality, Julio Martínez, the High Inspector of Education, Belén Pérez, the Citizen Participation Delegates of the National Police in Oviedo and Gijón, Iris Rodríguez and Luis Claudio Alperi, and the Citizen Participation Delegates of the Oviedo and Gijón de la Guardia Civil, Francisco Lavandera and Juan José Camporro.