The reinforcement of the coordination between security forces for Holy Week and the reinforcement measures in the Old Town have been the guiding thread of the Local Security Board held this morning in the City of Logroño, presided over by the mayor, Conrado Escobar, and the delegate of the Government, Beatriz Arraiz.
The mayor of Logroño has pointed out “the collaboration that is established between both administrations to ensure that Holy Week has the optimal levels of security”.
The device authorized by the Local Police will have an average of 100 agents each day distributed between holidays and working days (105 agents on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday; and 80 on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31), with the consequent reinforcement if appropriate for the needs of the service.
In addition, during these days the controls of alcohol and other substances will be intensified, in addition to continuing the campaign launched to detect and eradicate vandal acts related to graffiti and graffiti, which represent a significant deterioration of the city and constitutes a high cost for the public coffers in terms of replacement, repair and cleaning of the damage caused.
For her part, the delegate of the Government has detailed that the National Police Corps of La Rioja will establish anti-terrorist prevention devices in the Rioja capital during Holy Week, especially in processions and different religious events. To this end, the agents of the prevention and reaction unit (UPR), technicians specialized in the deactivation of explosives (TEDAX) and civilian personnel of the Provincial Information Brigade will be operational.
In addition, security in level 4 anti-terrorist prevention will be strengthened in train and bus stations, as well as in any other location with an influx of people.
Arraiz Nalda has indicated that the National Police will continue with the preventive work already begun of surveillance and crime prevention in different leisure areas and will reinforce the prevention of citizen security and drug consumption in leisure areas.
In this regard, he added that, to date, this work carried out by the National Police has managed to reduce security problems in leisure areas and in Easter will continue in the same line, intensifying in areas such as the Old Town, where greater crowding of people is expected by the celebration of processions and night departures.
The National Police will work together with the Local Police with civilian and uniformed officers to ensure that this event takes place without incident.
“The main objective of this device is prevention and, where appropriate, reaction to any situation that may alter the security of citizens,” said the mayor of Logroño. In this sense, Escobar added that “we start from the fact that Logroño is a safe city that at this time will have a strengthening of security, not always visible, but always effective. The goal is for security to mark the day to day in the city, as the data mark. Thus, taking into account current crime rates, Logroño is considered one of the safest provincial capitals in Spain.”
Working together in the Old Town
Conrado Escobar has also highlighted the coordination between the two bodies to reinforce security and the maintenance of civic standards in the different streets of the Old Town, where the National Police will participate with different troops and resources, mainly on weekends.
This collaboration is part of the shock plan presented by the mayor of Logroño on March 14 to improve the habitability of this area of the city, after the process of listening and participation that during the last weeks has been carried out within the framework of the Dialogue Table of the Old Town of Logroño, an initiative approved in the municipal plenary of the month of January and which was supported by all municipal groups.
This collaboration with the National Police adds to the increase in the patrols of the Local Police that already operate on foot and with the presence of a police vehicle in the streets Bretón de los Herreros, Portales, Sagasta and Plaza del Mercado to monitor civic behavior on the street. A reinforcement that will extend to other streets of the Old Town, mainly on weekends, and to which the placement of security cameras in sensitive points of the historic center will be added.
To this work is added the intensification of the inspection work of the City of Logroño for the fulfillment of different municipal ordinances. In this regard, last weekend the Local Police made 30 complaints for infractions typified in the Cleaning Ordinance; three records for possession of narcotic substances; and 10 warnings related to matters related to terraces and sailors in the Plaza del Mercado and its surroundings.