Municipal officers also removed 27 packets of snuff within operational prevention 'bottle', which has stepped up in recent weeks.
The Councillor for Local Police and Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez, has reported that Public Safety Units and Unit BRAVO Proximity and Prevention of Public Safety, within the operational and preventive actions are carried out by Body of local police regarding the sale and consumption of alcohol in public, have proceeded to the intervention of 1,261 units of alcohol and snuff packages 27 different trademarks in four shops the village, by performing sale of alcoholic beverages after hours by Municipal Ordinance on Protection and Prevention Coexistence antisocial actions.
Specifically, last Friday established a special device to prevent alcohol in public, commonly known as "bottle", resulting in the location of four stores that were engaged in the sale and dispensing of alcoholic beverages after hours established, two in Santa Fe Jerome Street, one on Main Street and the other on the Vineyard, we proceeded to formulate appropriate administrative complaints for this reason, proceeding to the seizure of gender, intervening 1021 liters of beer from different trademarks, 132 liters of red wine and white and 108 different trademarks bottles liqueur and snuff 27 packages of different brands, the retail price would exceed EUR 4000.
All involved gender became available to the Department of Health of the City of Lorca for later destruction after appropriate procedures.
Belen Perez Councilwoman said "these actions are confirming the ongoing operational preventive work carried out by the Local Police units within the town of Lorca, recalled while recent interventions that seek to avoid not only social nuisances and unfair competition posed to local businesses to be in compliance, but also the harm to health posed by the municipality that children drink alcohol, especially since in some cases may even be adulterated. "
For these reasons the previous week the local police intervened 1,370 other alcoholic beverages late May and other 1,341 were destroyed.
"We want to make it clear the message that we're going against that violates the law, but harder against those who profit financially from this failure to the detriment of Lorca," added the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca