“We are devastated”. It is the feeling of helplessness of the Local Police agents of the municipalities affected by the passage of DANA in Valencia. The storm has destroyed numerous police vehicles and damaged their facilities. In Paiporta, ground zero of the catastrophe, the losses are considerable, in addition to the pain due to the death of close people. “It will take time for normality to recover,” police sources explain to They got up.
Paiporta, Sedaví o alfalfa have been the most affected localities. At ground zero, DANA has practically destroyed police facilities. Also the Civil Guard post where one of the agents and the wife of another of the officials died. “The damage is irreparable,” these sources point out.
Many of these police officers now have to patrol on foot because They don’t have vehicles and also because the roads are still impeded in some places. They all agree to highlight above all the work of the thousands of volunteers from all over Spain who have come to their aid.
One of the groups that has done the most to help its colleagues with the agents of the Benidorm Local Police who are carrying out night surveillance functions in Paiporta. “The darkness is total… like a wolf’s mouth,” explained one of the commanders. They got up.
Local police, sunk
“The reality of these towns is that they are very large and Citizen Security depended on the Civil Guard. However, the lack of members of the Armed Institute in the rural world has caused the local police to have very powerful forces in the area. “, describe police sources.
The DANA tragedy has caused the municipal police forces to be practically “dismantled” and overcome by the situation. The morale of these agents has also been affected by the human and material losses that they have experienced firsthand.
Given this situation, the reinforcement of these operations is being carried out by local police from all parts of the region who have traveled to help their colleagues. The Ministry of the Interior has decided that the National Police and the Civil Guard share responsibility for Citizen Security for a “logical and operational question”.
However, the Armed Institute has sent a huge amount of both human and material resources. However, the municipal police do not fully trust this circumstance since they hope that the reinforcements will continue over time and not be forgotten.
DANA figures
According to Government figures, updated as of November 7, there are deployed in the area 9,200 agents of the State Security Forces and Bodies. Among them are eight psychologists who help their colleagues with their tasks.
This balance has 4,000 agents from the National Police and 5,200 from the Civil Guard. They have 1,784 specialized land, air and water vehicles mobilized in the towns affected by DANA. Among them 1 plane, 10 helicopters, 85 drones, 10 boats, 23 buses and more than 1,600 vehicles.
There are also 45 forensic doctors and 8 mobilized assistants. Until that date, the withdrawal on the highway of 2,487 cars and trucks. In addition, Customs Surveillance has 61 troops and 24 vehicles deployed. The agents have made 201 arrests of DANA looters.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
