The Councilor for Citizen Security of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez Martínez, has announced a relevant police action within the work developed by local agents during the weekend, specifically during the day on Saturday.
The mayor has announced that "the events took place at 12.30 pm While agents of the Unit for Protection and Prevention of Public Safety (UPPSC) were performing their own functions of surveillance and security in the urban area, they received notice of a neighbor communicating that an individual had just fractured the window of a tourist parked in the Alameda de Cervantes, seizing various objects inside. "
"The agents moved to the place immediately and thanks to the speed and availability of the data and characteristics of the thief by the description provided by the neighbor, the individual was intercepted while fleeing hastily from the scene, a few meters from the same ", the Councilwoman detailed.
The author of the events, which responds to the initials LFMS, of 32 years of age and Spanish origin, was arrested and transferred to police premises, where the corresponding proceedings were instructed to be later brought to justice for the commission of an alleged crime of strong theft in vehicles.
The affected tourism was withdrawn and deposited, as a preventive measure because it could not locate its owner at that moment and be open to have the window fractured.
Pérez Martínez has pointed out that "through this detention we can see how important citizen collaboration is to solve criminal acts, thanks to the participation of neighbors when giving notice of any event, the agents of the different units in which it is organized. Local Police can move quickly, both inside and outside the urban area, and is that within the preventive work is the factor of proximity to address any need urgently, as do our agents.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca