The Councilor for Security of the Alicante City Council, Julio Calero, denounced this morning a “wave of robberies, assaults and other crimes that affect citizen insecurity” in the Playa de San Juan area, one of the most populated neighborhoods in the city. city.
The mayor has demanded the urgent convening of the Local Security Board to promote the necessary measures with the aim of “stopping this increase in insecurity in the beach area of ??Alicante and other neighboring municipalities.”
Calero has requested the presence of a greater number of agents from the National Police Corps in San Juan Beach due to “the uptick in cases of robberies in homes, establishments such as pharmacies and high-end vehicles” that have been recorded in recent years. weeks, several of them perpetrated by members of international criminal gangs specialized in this type of crimes “that generate so much alarm among the population.”
“After robberies in homes and high-end vehicles, we have now more recently encountered robberies in pharmacies in Playa de San Juan and El Campello,” Calero highlighted. “And these are organized and very specialized groups that are causing helplessness and a growing sense of insecurity in a traditionally quiet area,” he added.
The Councilor for Human Resources has also stressed that the City Council and the Local Police are in contact with the National Police Corps to collaborate in the prosecution of these crimes, “but it is necessary and urgent for the Government to reinforce the presence of national police in the “Playa de San Juan to combat this rise in organized crime and fight against these international gangs of robbers who usually commit their crimes at night and are causing alarm among residents and business owners.”
Calero, who was Commissioner of the Local Police of Alicante between 2012 and April of last year, has demanded the extraordinary call of the Local Security Board to address this “extremely worrying” issue and promote cooperation and coordination between the forces and bodies. police. “We need the Government to take Alicante seriously once and for all and provide the city with the National Police Force necessary to combat organized crime,” the councilor stressed.
“Enough of discriminating against this city and the province, which the Government of Pedro Sánchez keeps at the bottom of Spain in the General State Budgets, in an inexplicable marginalization that is also noticeable in an issue as delicate as citizen security. ”, he insisted.
According to the city council itself, “in the midst of this climate of increasing insecurity in Playa de San Juan, the Councilor for Citizen Security and several local police officers met last Thursday the 17th with the leaders of the Neighborhood Association “Together we move forward to address the reinforcement of municipal body agents in the beach area.” While the works on the new headquarters are completed, before the summer a provisional checkpoint will begin to operate on San Juan Beach, where the number of agents was reinforced last summer, as is currently done in the different areas of neighborhood nightlife.
