The delegate of the Government of Spain in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, and the mayor of the town Miguel Gómez Herrero, have co-chaired today the Local Security Board to review the police device that will be implemented during the municipal festivities. The meeting, held in the City of Aranjuez, was attended by the councilman delegate of Citizen Security and deputy mayor, José de Ruz Fernández and the councilwoman delegate of Fiestas, María Mercedes Rico.
Representatives of Aranjuez Local Police, National Police, Civil Guard and Civil Protection have also been present. The Chief Commissioner of the Local Police, Félix Castillo Hernández, has been in charge of detailing the device for the festivities in collaboration with the National Police, which will provide a cavalry unit.
For their part, agents of the National Police and Civil Guard will be in charge of making filters in the proximity stations and sensitive points of the city to avoid any disturbance. The Civil Traffic Guard will make random checks to drivers both at the entrances and exits of the municipality.
On the other hand, the Chief Inspector of National Police, Miguel Ángel García del Pozo, has made a brief review on the crime balance of the town and has highlighted the decrease in the global by 4.5% compared to last year. The conventional crime rate has fallen by 3.4%, 13 points below the rate in the Community of Madrid
The government delegate, Francisco Martín, has highlighted the extraordinary coordination between the different Security Forces and Bodies to achieve a safe municipality. He also thanked the mayor for keeping the violet dots at the festivities and stressed that “Aranjuez is an example of the good functioning of the VioGén system”.
The Motín Festivities were named as festivals of National Tourist Interest in 1990 and are the only ones in the Community of Madrid declared of International Tourist Interest in 2014.
The name of the festivities is related to the historical events that took place in Aranjuez in 1808, with the fall of Godoy and the abdication of King Charles IV in his son Ferdinand VII. The neighbors remember these events through the streets and squares of the town through the representation of the Assault on the house of Godoy and the Motín de Aranjuez.