· The operation will be carried out until August 31 with a police reinforcement in tourist areas, a reaction operation against theft and robbery in homes and attention to large agglomerations
· In addition, it will increase preventive surveillance in strategic infrastructures
· Operation Summer adds a total of 11,031 personnel among those who are part of the citizen security staff and the reinforcement of 718 National Police and Civil Guard agents
· Pilar Bernabé highlights that the Government is “aware” that tourism “is one of the economic engines of the C.Valenciana”
The delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has presented, together with the Superior Chief of Police in the Valencian Community, Carlos Gajero, the device of Operation Summer 2024. In the Valencian Community, the operation will be reinforced by 718 agents, 400 of them from the National Police and 318 from the Civil Guard distributed among the three provinces. Operation Summer is made up of these reinforcements plus the troops assigned to the citizen security units. In total, in the Valencian Community, 11,031 troops will participate in this special operation.
In the case of the province of Valencia, the National Police will allocate more than 2,100 troops to Operation Summer, of which 205 are trainees. Of these, 1,000 troops will be assigned to the city of Valencia.
This device will increase the police presence in tourist areas, the prevention and reaction against thefts and burglaries in homes and the attention to large agglomerations, as is the case of music festivals
The delegate of the Government has indicated that Operation Summer allows “to increase security in cities like València, with a large influx of tourism”. “Tourism is one of the economic engines of the Community and the Government is aware of this and hence the determined commitment to keep our community safe,” said the delegate. Therefore, according to Bernabé, it “increases security in strategic infrastructures such as ports, airports and stations, large agglomerations, beach areas and strengthens all citizen care units and judicial police to be more agile in the attention of visitors”