· The Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, has presented the project of integral rehabilitation of the Zapadores police complex, endowed with 30 million euros and with an execution period of 24 months
· The presentation was attended by the president of the Valencian Parliament, Enric Xavier Morera; the delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé; the general director of the National Police, Francisco Pardo, and the president of the Interior Committee of the Congress of Deputies, José Luis Ábalos, among other authorities
The Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, presented this Friday in Valencia the project of integral rehabilitation of the police complex of Zapadores, a project endowed with 30 million euros of which he stressed that it is "the largest investment in police infrastructures currently planned in Spain".
In his speech, Pérez highlighted this investment effort as well as the boost to the expansion of the staff of the Superior Police Headquarters of Valencia, which since June 2018 has grown by 11 percent with more than 630 new personnel, as evidence of the commitment of the Ministry of the Interior to security in the community.
“All this is public value, as is the provision of training personnel, resources, training, means and equipment, and that National Police officials perform their service in decent conditions of pay,” said Pérez.
The works of integral rehabilitation of the police complex of Zapadores in València began at the beginning of this month of March, and its expected duration is 24 months.
The presentation of the project was attended by the President of the Society of Penitentiary Infrastructure and Equipment and State Security (SIEPSE), Mercedes Gallizo, and the Superior Chief of Police of the Valencian Community, Chief Commissioner Jorge Manuel Martí.
The event was also attended by the president of the Valencian Parliament, Enric Xavier Morera; the delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé; the general director of the National Police, Francisco Pardo, and the president of the Interior Committee of the Congress of Deputies, José Luis Ábalos, among other authorities.
HISTORIC BUILDINGS
The president of SIEPSE, the entity in charge of the design and execution of the project, has shown its general lines, which have taken into account that the police complex of Zapadores occupies the former facilities of the ‘General Admiral’ barracks, built between 1921 and 1924 and several of whose buildings are catalogued in the General Plan of Urban Planning of València as goods of local relevance, which implies their protection as a historical reference.
The planned action seeks to reorder the site through the integral rehabilitation and consolidation of three of the oldest buildings, the partial refurbishment of another three of the blocks in the complex, the construction of a new floor of the warehouse and archive building, an underground car park with capacity for 163 spaces and the refurbishment of the façade of two of the interior constructions, the current Ruzafa police station and the workshop building.
Like all the projects that SIEPSE carries out for the Ministry of the Interior, the design of the new Zapadores complex is structured around the transversal principles of sustainability and energy efficiency.
They will be buildings of almost zero energy consumption and ‘zero emissions’ thanks to the use of air conditioning systems of high efficiency, photovoltaic solar panels for self-consumption, centralized technical control of facilities for control of consumption and use of Led luminaires, which has granted the project the certification of sustainability ‘Green 3 sheets’, issued by the institution Green Building Council Spain (GBCe).