Cartagena will have a special deployment this Christmas to ensure a safe festive season. On behalf of Cartagena City Council, members of the Fire Brigade, Civil Protection and Local Police will be taking part. They will be joined by the state security forces of Guardia Civil and National Police.
The device has been analyzed this Wednesday at the Security Board chaired by the mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo. The councillor said that «our goal is to ensure that Cartagena residents and visitors enjoy a safe Christmas, with devices that we will maintain throughout the holidays throughout the municipality and that we will reinforce at the times and places of greatest influx».
The Local Police will have an average of 130 officers per day, with the reinforcement of the Special Citizen Security Group in places and at times when a greater concentration of people is expected. The National Police will provide 100 officers per day; and the Guardia Civil, another 100, between public safety and traffic.
Local Police will have an average of 130 officers per day and Civil Protection will have 20 professionals and volunteers on duty every day.
Civil Protection will have around twenty people on duty every day, including professionals and volunteers. This number will increase to fifty people for the safety of the Three Kings Parade. They will have several vehicles at their disposal, including the new ambulance, the first of municipal property, which has just been acquired to put at the service of Civil Protection.
Cruises and control of fiestas
The Mayoress has announced that the main area of control will be over the whole port, with special attention to the days of arrival of cruise ships: 3, 8, 11, 14, 20 and 25 December. The local police are already carrying out a special monitoring of social networks and advertising to detect and prevent parties being held in unlicensed venues, and to prevent the holding of botellones. «The organiser who sells tickets for parties that cannot be held will be defrauding their customers, putting them at risk and will face sanctions from the City Council of Cartagena,» warned Noelia Arroyo.