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With this activity the Department of Public Safety undertakes a chain of ciclopaseos under the motto "Respect and ride a bicycle", which will be directed to all schools in the municipality of Lorca who request it for their 5th grade primary

The Councilor for Citizen Security of the City of Lorca, Bethlehem Perez, this morning participated in the presentation of the Cyclist Unit of the Local Police and the cycle that have made the students of the school Ana Caicedo, and is part of the activities that The Lorca Consistory has organized to commemorate the European Week of Mobility.

Belén Pérez has indicated that "the acts that are going to be carried out in the city during this week in collaboration with numerous Lorca groups have the objective of promoting the use of the bicycle as a means of ecological, sustainable and practical travel. Schoolchildren have taken the exit at the school Ana Caicedo and have come to the Alameda de la Constitución accompanied by the Local Police Cyclist Unit.With this action, the Department of Public Safety undertakes a chain of ciclopaseos under the slogan "Respect and ride by bicycle ", which will be addressed to all schools in the municipality of Lorca who request it for their 5th grade courses".

The Councilor for Public Safety explained that "there are many reasons why we believe that this activity is essential for our community and especially for students in 5th and 6th grade of Early Childhood Education, such as mobility, health, The environment or the economy make this alternative means of transport the most suitable for short journeys, although at 2 or 3 years old children can begin to use the bicycle, it is usually from 12 or 13 years old when They begin to make autonomous journeys, that is to say without the presence of parents / guardians and making use of the public roads, which we intend to make safer with the projection of videos and lectures in which from the Local Police the main norms will be divulged of circulation, the use of safety elements, while offering advice on the proper and safe way to cycle.

Pérez, in this sense, has indicated that "the Administrative Security Unit of the Local Police has incorporated two bicycles for their regular work to be used by the agents themselves in the road safety education projects that are being carried out with the objective of promoting both road education for children in schools and to disseminate the health benefits of using an ecological, sustainable and fast way to make our daily trips. "

The Citizen Security Edil has anticipated that "in the next few weeks the Local Police will put back, after the summer holidays, the road safety education projects that are carried out during the school year in schools and in the Comprehensive Emergency Center and Security, which are aimed at students throughout the municipality.The purpose of these is to introduce the values ​​of road safety in minors, promoting the use of personal protection mechanisms, so that they acquire good behaviors such as pedestrians, occupants of a vehicle or drivers, receiving advice on safety, practices as drivers, regulating traffic or behaving like good passers-by. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca