More than 3,000 agents of the State Security Forces and Corps will be part of the extraordinary security device for Fallas 2025 in the city of Valencia. Specifically, the operation will be composed of 2,800 agents of the National Police and 600 of the Civil Guard. After the Local Security Board of Valencia, the delegate of the Government, Pilar Bernabé, has pointed out that “the Fallas of this year, will not be a few more parties, nor will the mood be the same due to the dana”. All in all, he added, “a device has been prepared to ensure that these festivities are held in the best safety conditions”.
Bernabé explained that, in the case of the National Police, the agents who usually carry out their work in the capital of the Turia are joined by Police Intervention Units (UIPs) from other provinces: “It is, in short, one of the most important police deployments in the Valencian Community to guarantee the normality of the holidays”.
As explained, the National Police will carry out specific services coinciding with the main events of these festivities (crida, mascletaes, fireworks castles and Nit del Foc, flower offering, cremà, etc. ). In the case of the Civil Guard, in addition to intensifying the control of pyrotechnic products, it will increase the surveillance of the districts surrounding València and the traffic of the accesses to the city. In addition, Civil Guard agents will carry out alcohol and drug consumption controls and monitor critical infrastructures in their area of competence.
Pilar Bernabé chaired this morning in the City of Valencia the Local Security Board together with the mayor, Mª José Catalá. The meeting was also attended, among others, by those responsible for the various security forces and bodies.
The delegate has indicated that “the objective of this device is for citizens to enjoy and participate in these days.” To this end, the different security forces will work with “maximum coordination” to ensure safe parties. At the same time, the delegate has urged the citizens “to respect the basic rules of coexistence”.