The Arrecife City Council has announced that "police presence will be reinforced" in the capital's neighborhoods and during the weekend, as agreed at the meeting held this Thursday, December 2, between the Mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, and the new Councilor for Local Police, Jacobo Lemes, with the head of the Local Police, Jesús Lasso, in which they addressed issues related to security in the city.
In this meeting, which was the first contact between the new councilor of the area and the head of the Local Police, the need to "reinforce the security of the neighborhoods of Arrecife" was addressed, while also wanting to increase police presence during the weekends in the capital".
From the City Council, they point out that it was also agreed to request "the assistance of the Autonomous Police to increase the personnel assigned to the security of Arrecife”, as part of the inter-administrative collaboration and of the security forces and bodies in the islands.
From the capital's Consistory, they emphasize that the Mayor of Arrecife and regional deputy of the PP, Ástrid Pérez, "already presented a Non-Law Proposal in Parliament, which was rejected by the parties that make up the Flower Pact, so that Lanzarote could have, like Gran Canaria and Tenerife, a permanent detachment of the Canarian Police".
In this sense, from the Arrecife City Council they state that, in her demand for this detachment of the Autonomous Police, Ástrid Pérez "highlighted the data regarding the increase in population, the increase in the arrival of tourists, to which must be added the growing arrival of migrants to the coasts of the island, more than 3,000 so far this year, which entails allocating police personnel to cover needs that are not the responsibility of the Local Police".