Ruidera.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, and the general of Zona de la Guardia Civil, Francisco Javier Cortés, visited this Friday the wide security device that is going to be deployed in the Natural Park of Las Lagunas de Ruidera on the occasion of the summer period, in which the influx of visitors to this area is multitudinous. A device that will remain activated from tomorrow, July 1 until next September 17.
This is, said Tierraseca, a protected Natural Park – which is part of the Biosphere Reserve – and which during the summer weekends hosts up to almost 20,000 people, mostly families. Therefore, this important device is enabled, which aims to “guarantee citizen security and public order, as well as ensure that environmental crimes do not occur” and facilitate mobility avoiding traffic problems in the area.
The delegate highlighted the “good coordination”, in a space in which the Civil Guard Commanders of two provinces, Albacete and Ciudad Real, interact with the Civil Guard Headquarters in Castilla-La Mancha at the head.
During the summer period, the security device has the presence of different units of the Benemérita, such as Citizen Security, Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) and Traffic.
On weekends and holidays, the device is increased with the presence of the Special Group of Underwater Activities (GEAS), the Air Service (Pegasus team) and the Cavalry Squadron.
A broad mechanism that pursues several specific objectives, listed by the delegate, such as “ensuring citizen security and maintaining public order, ensuring the orderly mobility of traffic and, thirdly, the surveillance against forest fires and the protection of nature”.
Francisco Tierraseca has also highlighted that the Lagoons are a leisure space with hardly any criminal acts. “Thanks to the operation of the Civil Guard and the collaboration of the two municipalities, Ossa de Montiel and Ruidera, there are no outstanding figures either of criminal acts or of administrative infractions,” he said.
The government delegate has encouraged visitors to enjoy this natural space, and to do so “responsibly”, both inside the water, so that there is no need to lament fatal events (last year there was a drowning death, in the Salvadora lagoon), as well as in the accesses, since it is traffic problems that are mainly concentrated, especially on weekends.
The delegate of the Government in Castilla-La Mancha and the general of the Civil Guard in the Region have been accompanied in the visit to the Lagoons of Ruidera by the subdelegate of the Government in Albacete, Miguel Juan Espinosa, the subdelegate of the Government in Ciudad Real, María Ángeles Herreros, the colonel of the Civil Guard in Albacete, Jesús Manuel Rodrigo, the lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard in Ciudad Real, Juan Antonio Valle, as well as the mayor of Ruidera, Alejandro de Monossa.