More than 2,500 officers, including the National Police, the Civil Guard, the Foral Police and the Municipal Police of Pamplona, make up the device planned for the next Sanfermines. This was agreed at the Security Board held this morning in the Government Delegation in Navarre and attended by, among others, the Government delegate, José Luis Arasti; the First Vice-President and Acting President, Equality, Public Service and Interior, Javier Remírez; the Mayor of Pamplona, Cristina Ibarrola; as well as the commanders of the police forces.
The purpose of the meeting is to coordinate the work of the different bodies to guarantee security during the holidays and to offer the best possible attention during a few days of great influx of visitors in Pamplona.
Of the officers that make up the device, about 800 are members of the National Police, 649, the Civil Guard, about 700, the Foral Police, and 404, the Municipal Police. To these must be added the 179 Civil Protection assistants who carry out traffic regulation and control tasks in specific points, in addition to other functions of collaboration with Municipal Police.
The devices for the main events are already organized, such as the “chupinazo”, the “encierros”, the procession, the fireworks, the entrances and exits of the bullring or the parades of giants and big heads.
The interventions will be coordinated between all the police forces and the inter-police coordination center will be installed in the City of Pamplona. The CECOR has officers from the four police forces (National Police, Civil Guard, Foral Police and Municipal Police) and they view in real time all the security and traffic cameras that the council has installed in the urban center. This visualization allows an effective and efficient management of the events that require police presence, coordinating the troops and offering a quick response to the citizens.
National Police
The National Police mobilizes for the festivities about 800 agents corresponding to the cavalry units, deactivators of explosives TEDAX-NRBQ, subsoil, the police intervention unit, which will be reinforced with 6 groups from different provinces of Spain, canine guides or aerial means in their helicopter and drone modalities.
In addition, the UFAM (Family and Women Care Unit) will increase its activity to prevent actions against freedom and sexual integrity. Security measures in shows and events involving large concentrations of people are also increasing, as are preventive measures in the field of counter-terrorism.
Likewise, the National Police Aliens Brigade will pay special attention to the control of documentations to detect documentary falsehoods during a party that brings together people of multiple nationalities.
Joint patrols with uniformed officers from Germany, Italy, Portugal and France will be carried out under the European Police Stations project.
Civil Guard
The work of the Civil Guard focuses on the efficient control of the different accesses to Pamplona, both for the detection of possible terrorist elements, and for the seizure of narcotic substances or substances of illegal origin. Preventive traffic controls for the detection of alcohol or drug consumption are also strengthened.
Likewise, it will affect the inspection and control of camping areas; the transport of perishable goods for human consumption; or the control of pyrotechnic shows.
To this end, the Civil Guard mobilizes 649 agents from the Citizen Security Unit, the Prosecutor and Borders Section, the Traffic Group, the Rapid Action Group, the Group of Specialists in Deactivation of Explosives and SEPRONA, among other units.
Foral Police
On the part of the Foral Police, specific devices are foreseen for the most multitudinous acts as well as the surveillance of security in the bullring during the confinement and the bullfights of the Feria del Toro. There will also be devices aimed at preventing burglaries in homes and preventing unauthorized street sales. The field of road safety will also be affected by traffic controls at access to the city. Likewise, the device includes specific provisions aimed at preventing sexual assaults and other crimes against sexual freedom during the development of the festivities such as specific patrols in parks and parking lots.
The device, composed of more than 700 agents, will include personnel from the areas of Citizen Security, Traffic and Road Safety, Internal Security and Administrative Police, Criminal Investigation, and General Inspection. This involves the mobilization of practically all the specialties available to the Foral Police.
The Office of Complaints and Citizen Attention of the Plaza del Castillo will be the reference place for the presentation of complaints by those who are victims of any criminal act and 112 will be the telephone for urgent notices that must be subject to immediate attention from the Foral Police.
Municipal Police of Pamplona
The Municipal Police of Pamplona will mobilize 404 agents during the Sanfermines to which 36 students and students of the Security School of Navarre will join. In addition, there will be 179 Civil Protection assistants. In addition to the coordination work with the other bodies, the Municipal Police of Pamplona will keep active all the usual operational services during the rest of the year, such as the group of attested (attention to traffic accidents in the urban area and processing of files for crimes against road safety), the group of ODAC (reception of criminal complaints), groups of investigation of criminal offenses, groups of minors, seniors and family (in particular, crimes against sexual freedom), or road safety group (regulation of traffic in the urban area).
Likewise, it has planned a special device for July 7, during the Procession, to eradicate any violent attitude that alters the coexistence in the Sanfermines. Thus, it will increase the number of cameras carried by the Municipal Police to be able to identify, together with the fixed cameras of the city, those citizens who break the coexistence and disturb the citizen security in the procession, as happened in 2022 on Curia Street. The last Sanfermines filed 19 complaints of 12,000 euros each to citizens for breaching the Citizen Security Law, sanctions all of which have already been paid. These Sanfermines will increase the amount of the sanctions to the maximum degree allowed by the Law, that is, they will go from 12,000 to 30,000 euros.