- The government delegate in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, and the mayor of Alcorcón, Candelaria Testa, have co-chaired an extraordinary meeting in which a specific security problem generated by a local on Madrid Street of the municipality has been addressed.
- It has been agreed to strengthen coordination in this area in order to address the concerns of the situation between neighbours and neighbours.
Alcorcón is one of the cities with more than 20,000 safer inhabitants of the Community of Madrid, with a crime rate that is 14 points below the average in the region, and the security problems that a local located on Madrid Street is generating are a “punctual” issue that is going to be addressed with a strengthening of collaboration and coordination between the security forces.
This has been agreed at the extraordinary Local Security Board held today in the municipality’s City Hall and co-chaired by the government delegate in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, and the mayor of Alcorcón, Candelaria Testa. Representatives of the National Police, the Civil Guard, the Local Police of Alcorcón, Firefighters, Civil Protection and the Community of Madrid have attended.
Francisco Martín has pointed out the political irresponsibility of trying to generate social alarm around a specific situation when the data contradicts those discourses. However, he has stressed that the appropriate measures are going to be taken to try to reduce the concern that the activity of this place located on Madrid Street is generating among the residents of the area.
On the other hand, he wanted to highlight how local security boards are the perfect tool to address this type of conflict, and he thanked the mayor for convening this meeting to address the issue and seek coordinated solutions that involve all security forces.
Finally, it wanted to recognize the “exemplary” commitment of the municipality of Alcorcón in the fight against gender violence, and has again called on the municipalities of the region that are not yet adhered to the VioGén system of comprehensive protection and follow-up of cases of gender violence, to follow the example of this locality and join it.