The Arrecife City Council has provided two new cars and three motorcycles to the Local Police force. This new fleet is powered by electricity, within the new plans of the Government group led by the mayor Astrid Pérez to support less polluting and more ecological energies.
The parking area in front of what will be the future headquarters of the Arrecife Local Police, next to the central building of the Tax Agency in Lanzarote, hosted this Friday morning the presentation of these new acquisitions, which has been subsidized by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, destined for the purchase of efficient and sustainable vehicles.
The mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, the deputy mayor and councilor of Police, Alfredo Mendoza, and the head of the Local Police, presented this Friday the new vehicles for the Local Police. Last autumn, the Police already had a new patrol car, the first acquired in the last five years, which is joined by the new fleet tendered last year 2020.
In addition, several councilors of the Government group, and the agents who will carry these new motorized units from now on, were present at the event.
During the presentation, the mayor Astrid Pérez, stressed that one of her commitments "has always been to strengthen the equipment of the Local Police so that they can provide a better service to citizens. For Arrecife to remain a safe city and capital, more police and more resources are needed. And we are already doing it. 12 new positions have been created and materialized in 2020. And we are already with the arrival of more resources, vehicles, equipment and communication systems." This coming spring, the mayoress recalled, "five new vehicles that have already been awarded will be delivered." Astrid Pérez thanked in this act the "work and effort made by the entire staff of the Local Police in the security of Arrecife, even more so in these months of alarm due to the pandemic."
For his part, the second deputy mayor and councilor of Police, Alfredo Mendoza, said that "We want to show our commitment to the environment with the acquisition of these new vehicles, all of them electric and financed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. We want to provide more tools to our agents during the coming months, to ensure a higher quality in services, increasing citizen security in our municipality."
The Local Police of Arrecife already has an Electric Recharge Point in the area near its facilities and headquarters, within the plan of the Government group to provide more electric power points for vehicles in the capital of Lanzarote. The first ones in Arrecife, in this 21st century, have been installed throughout the autumn of 2021, thanks to an initiative of the Public Works and Municipal Mobile Park area, under the direction of the councilor Roberto Herbón.
