More than 630 agents of the Civil Guard of Cantabria and the Local Police of Castro Urdiales, Laredo, Noja, Santoña, Suances and Potes take part in the reinforcement of controls and surveillance in these six municipalities, which began on June 1 and will last until September 30, within the Special Plan for the Development of Leisure promoted for the second consecutive year by the Government Delegation in Cantabria and the Civil Guard.
The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, and the colonel head of the Civil Guard, Antonio Orantos, along with other commanders of the Civil Guard and the special delegate of the Tax Agency in Cantabria, Miguel Cárcaba, held on Wednesday a meeting on the operational planning that will be developed throughout the summer within the framework of the plan.
This Special Plan for the Development of Leisure is implemented again in the five municipalities in which it was pioneered in the summer of 2022 and to which Potes is added this year due to the forecast of a notable increase in visitors for the celebration of the Lebaniego Jubilee Year.
Quiñones stressed that “from the Government Delegation and the Civil Guard we are relaunching this plan that gave such good results last summer and that, as we announced, was born with a vocation to standardize and expand to other municipalities, as is the case of Potes”.
In the meeting held this Wednesday in the Cantabria room of the Delegation, the Civil Guard units involved in the Plan and the specific controls to be carried out have been addressed, for which a schedule has been organized taking into account the events, celebrations and days of greater influx in each of the six municipalities throughout the summer.
The government delegate recalled that the plan was closed last summer with a total of 219 arrests and 2,519 complaints for different infractions.
“All the institutions and administrations involved, the Civil Guard, the Local Police, the Government of Cantabria, the City Councils, the Tax Agency and the Labour Inspectorate, carried out a great collective work and concluded with important results in terms of security, which is what this Master Plan was launched for in the Cantabrian Coast,” he said.
The personnel of the Civil Guard of the USECIC (Citizen Security Unit), the Traffic Sector, the SEPRONA (Nature Protection Service), the GEAS (Special Group of Underwater Activities), the Maritime Service, the Special Rescue Group for Mountain Intervention (GREIM), the Roca Teams, the Rural Security Group (GRS) or the cinological and air services will work in collaboration and coordination with the Local Police to increase and reinforce the control devices and in these six municipalities.
“The operational planning prepared by the Civil Guard meets the specific needs of each of these municipalities throughout the summer period,” said Quiñones, who has assured that the rest of the tourist municipalities of the Autonomous Community will have, as every year, reinforcements of troops of the State Security Forces and Corps within the framework of the Safe Tourism Plan.
In order for the action to be global, in addition to the devices and controls of the Civil Guard and the Local Police, there will also be other types of inspections that depend on other administrations such as the Government of Cantabria, the Tax Agency or the Labour Inspection, with the aim of guaranteeing the quality of tourism.
Thus, within the framework of the Special Plan for the Development of Leisure, specific control devices will be developed on the consumption of alcohol and drugs, male and sexual violence, environment and animal abuse, cybercrime, citizen and road safety, work and social security, tax fraud, public order, protection of minors, hatred and discrimination, trafficking in human beings or cultivation and trafficking of drugs, among others.