The operation will affect, as in previous years, the monitoring of other points of the municipality during these days, to ensure that no incidents are recorded taking advantage of the absence of the neighbors of the districts when they move to participate or enjoy the processions.
The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, and the Government delegate, José Vélez, have chaired, this morning, the meeting of the Local Security Board, to coordinate all necessary security and auxiliary services to ensure the proper development of all the events of the Easter Week lorquina 2020 and that has had representatives of Civil Guard, National Police and Local Police.
The mayor of Lorca has stressed that "we are working together among all for the coordination that has been taking place so far of National Police and Civil Guard, with the municipal services of Local Police and Emergencies and the various services involved in our Week Santa of International Tourist Interest ".
Diego José Mateos has been "convinced that the involvement of the Delegation of the Government and its delegate will be total in the face of the troops that are necessary for the celebration of an event of such size and to guarantee security and its good development So we will have to anticipate all possible incidents that may arise. "
Mateos Molina has said "expect the device to go unnoticed, a sign that it has gone well, without problems, and that our great Holy Week has run normally."
For his part, the delegate of the Government in the Region of Murcia has highlighted, once again, "the coordination and collaboration between the State Security Forces and Police and Local Police" and added that "an effort will be made, we will put all the means at our disposal and we will reinforce the device of both the Civil Guard and the National Police so that we can all enjoy a party of as much level as Holy Week in Lorca. "
A device that will have 127 National Police agents, 117 Civil Guard, both Traffic and Citizen Security agents who will join the 115 agents of the Local Police of Lorca, which will have to add other municipal services , among them, Emergencies and Surveillance.
As for the Special Operation provided by Local Police for Holy Week 2020, it maintains the structure that has been operationally efficient in previous years, for this year the necessary adjustments have been made updating the device according to the premises and objectives set.
It consists of an Initial Phase where mainly the necessary support is provided to the preparations and logistics prior to Holy Week and the Operational Phase, which will be activated on Thursday, April 3, until Sunday, day 12, period in which the totality of the Local Police staff 115 agents are mobilized.
The Initial Phase, active since February 28, supposes the reinforcement of services to meet all the preparations and needs such as the Traditional Three Ways of the Purple Cross Fridays (Nogalte - Calvario) in the morning and in the afternoon, at same as the Via Crucis night of the Incarnate Pass (Barrio San Cristóbal), in addition to the essays of Pasos Portapasos programmed by the different Brotherhoods.
As of Friday, March 27, the specific operations for each of the scheduled events will be established, such as the Easter Week Proclamation, assembly work of the stands located in the so-called "Processional Race", section between the Avenue Juan Carlos I and Plaza de Ovalo and Floridablanca Street, for which Local Police distributes around 1,400 cards to authorized users and neighbors for access to garages in the area.
In addition, to minimize the impact that these works of assembly of the stands have on the circulation of vehicles and people, commercial activity, etc., traffic control and regulation points are established to inform and regulate the access of suppliers, users, authorized neighbors , as of public transport, ensuring the safety of road and pedestrian traffic.
The Operational Phase will be activated from Thursday, April 3, and will be effective until Sunday, April 12, with all the Local Police personnel being mobilized to cover the events of the Traditional Serenade to the Virgin of Los Dolores and the sandblasting of Avd. Juan Carlos I this day, extends to the rest of all kinds of activities and events and cultural and religious manifestations, to the Processions of Friday of Sorrows, Saturday of Glory, Palm Sunday, the Living Way of the Cross of Monday Santo, The Procession of the Meeting in Barrio San Cristóbal, the descent of the Cristo Paso Morado, Procession of Holy Thursday and Procession of Silence in Barrio San Cristóbal, Procession of Good Friday, Processions in the old town such as Saturday of Glory with and rise of the Virgin to Blessed Mary and Easter Sunday.
The Operative effectively reaches each and every one of the needs or requirements requested by the different brotherhoods both in the corresponding related Processions such as the Trials with Thrones, Via Crucis, Serenades and other religious acts in the respective parishes, transfers of thrones and bands , itineraries in the displacement and return of the Steps to the Processions, cavalries and cars, etc, ...).
This Security Operative is deployed throughout its development, during the four processions that run through Juan Carlos I, Friday of Dolores, Palm Sunday, Thursday and Good Friday, days 3, 5, 9 and 10 April, contemplating three areas or areas of influence that are of Police Interest, such as an outdoor area that will be responsible for the external surveillance of all accesses and itineraries, through patrols and controls, thus providing a face-to-face and deterrent surveillance service in districts and neighborhoods of the city, where the absence of residents in the homes, precisely because of their attendance at the Processions, could be an easy objective for the commission of crimes against property, also monitoring parking areas and access routes to the city center.
For this, units of the UDIP and GISC units will be deployed during the Procession schedules.
In addition, a safety area that will consist of a pedestrian boundary in the area of ​​influence of the respective Processions, in the closure to road traffic, in the incorporation of static mobile elements with preventive character in risk avoidance of attack with vehicle use, fixing Control points.
In areas such as the Cuesta de la Velica, Old Bridge of the San Cristobal District, New Bridge of San Diego, Tocinos Bridge, Santa Quiteria Fairgrounds and Santa Paula Oval.
And an interior area in which control points will be established with static mobile elements on a preventive basis to avoid the risk of attack, patrols on foot and motorized, in this area that includes all the development of the so-called Juan Carlos I Avenue and all adjacent streets.
And in which the presence of agents within 50 meters is ensured.
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Being the areas including the Pool-Santo Domingo, Lope Gisbert in all its development and crossings, Sliding, Walnut-Cuesta San Francisco, Plazas Calderón and Colón, Alameda de la Constitución, Ramón y Cajal, Eugenio Úbeda-Fajardo El Bravo and Plaza Real .
In addition, the GISC and Canine Unit Units will be deployed in pedestrian areas and public squares in support of Citizen Security, avoiding bottle and antisocial behaviors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca