The Arrecife City Council has closed a new property in a state of abandonment that was used for drug dealing and smoking. The City Council assures that the neighbors had been warning of the insecurity that was being registered in this area next to a public square in the center of the city.
The Local Police had this place under surveillance and this past weekend a police deployment was carried out to comb it. The local agents, who have been reinforcing their monitoring and surveillance of these places, had direct information from the neighbors who had been suffering, for some time, episodes of insecurity.
Mayor Yonathan de León has launched a crusade to eradicate these places that generate nuisance to the neighbors and become unhealthy focuses for young people. The mayor, who is also the direct head of the Local Police, has decreed in this last year the closure of 10 smoking dens, the last of them during this week.
Operators of the Department of Works of the capital's City Council have walled up the accesses to this property in a state of semi-ruin. Its interior, according to the neighbors, was "an unhealthy focus and registered frequent 'dealing', in addition to being a smoking den for drug addicts."
In this last year, similar properties have been closed in La Vega, Argana, Los Alonso or in the center that generated annoyances and conflictive situations with the residents.
In addition, the Local Police is carrying out frequent deployments in the squares and public spaces of the capital of Lanzarote to stop the sale and consumption of drugs in Arrecife.
