Cuenca.- The City Council of Cuenca has hosted on Monday the meeting of the Local Security Board in which the Specific Plan of Collaboration and Coordination has been approved on the occasion of the Holy Week of Cuenca, a meeting co-chaired by the delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, and the mayor of Cuenca, Darío Dolz.
The delegate has highlighted the participation of the National Police and the Civil Guard in this device, each in its area of competence, highlighting the coordination of the State Security Forces and Bodies with the other services and bodies involved in the operation.
Among the novelties of this year, the Government delegate has referred to the incorporation of the Air Media Unit of the National Police to monitor from the air the development of the procession of Palm Sunday and Las Turbas (Holy Thursday). The deployment will also have, as in previous years, the collaboration of the Prevention and Reaction Units (UPR) to cover the events where a greater influx of people is expected, and with canine guides.
The objective of the Plan approved today is the elaboration of a device “that guarantees citizen security and road safety, the prevention of possible disturbances of public order and intervention in case of emergency, risk situations or that the safety of people is compromised”, said the delegate at the subsequent press conference.
The Government of Spain and the other administrations “put the resources and public services of security and emergency at the disposal of this important event”, coordinating the action plans, surveillance, evacuation, communications, controls, protocols, alternative routes etc.
During the days of the celebrations and processions, coordination, controls and surveillance are intensified by the Civil Guard Corps, Local Police and National Police, “each within the scope of their competences, to ensure that everything develops with the normality and splendor that characterizes the Holy Week of Cuenca.” In total, more than 400 troops between the security forces and other emergency services that operate to ensure security and assistance.
Other services
From the Government of Spain “we also make available to this Plan other services that depend on the State Administration such as the General Directorate of Traffic or the Meteorology Agency, which will provide very useful information for decision making”.
Milagros Tolón has expressed his gratitude to all the services and bodies involved in this operation, fruit of the institutional and technical coordination between different administrations, as well as to the Junta de Cofradías de Cuenca, organizer of the processions.
The most important of the year
For his part, the mayor of Cuenca thanked the delegate for her presence in this Local Security Board, “the most important of the year for what it means for Cuenca and for the logistical deployment it requires”. He pointed out that the days in which a greater concentration of public is expected are Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday, although the Holy Week as a whole “are the 10 most important days for the city of Cuenca”.
The meeting was also attended by the Subdelegate of the Government in Cuenca, Mª Luz Fernández; the Chief Commissioner of the National Police in Cuenca, Manuel Domínguez; the Chief of the Command of Cuenca, Lieutenant Colonel Mª Jesús Pascual, and representatives of the other services involved in the operation.