The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, presented this Monday the 13 new vehicles and five motorcycles acquired by the City Council to modernize the fleet of the Local Police, the largest purchase and renovation that has been carried out in the municipality so far.
The Local Police of the capital of Lanzarote will be, with these new endowments, "among the best Local Police forces in the Canary Islands." The mayor, who is the direct head of the Local Police, had committed to the modernization of the Local Police with new means and personal troops, to "achieve greater deployments throughout all the neighborhoods of the city."
Yonathan de León highlighted this Monday, in a meeting that took place in the Plaza de Los Luchadores, in Altavista, that with this renovation "the local agents are going to be more present in all the neighborhoods of Arrecife, one of my commitments when I acceded to the Mayor's Office of Arrecife in July of last year. For this, agents will have four new undercover vehicles", recently acquired, and that have not been present in today's act to prevent citizens from knowing their license plates and characteristics.
With the integral renovation of the Local Police fleet, the largest in the history of the Arrecife Police, the Corps has premiered this week thirteen new vehicles, four of them undercover (without police lettering, and five new motorcycles. All vehicles are equipped with the latest equipment advances for police performance.
The situation of the mobile park of the Local Police of Arrecife reached with previous governments until 2019, a high degree of precariousness, to the point that it was necessary to resort to renting vehicles so that the agents could patrol the streets of the capital of Lanzarote. The group of the Municipal Government led by Yonathan de León, launched at the beginning of this term the tenders to ensure that in this 2024 the Local Police of Arrecife was among the best equipped in the Canary Islands.
This fleet renovation joins the premiere of the new Arrecife Local Police Station, launched in the previous term. And now, the Arrecife Local Police is premiering in these last days of April a total of eleven vehicles and five motorcycles, with an investment of more than 600,000 euros. The renovation of the fleet is part of a large modernization plan in the city of Arrecife. Recently, the mayor presented the new video surveillance room supported by the deployment of security cameras in many sensitive areas of Arrecife.
The mayor said today, in this act where he was accompanied by the Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Kevin Cortés, and several councilors of the Government group, that over the next months the Local Police will continue to premiere more vehicles, which together with the new agents that will join throughout this 2024, will make it possible for Arrecife to feel in the streets the improvement of the services of the Local Police to citizens and visitors.
Among the new police vehicles is the half dozen SUV vehicles, all of them with equipment and means to allow permanent patrols in the streets of the capital of Lanzarote. The Local Corps also has a new van vehicle destined for reports.
The deputy chief commissioner of the Local Police of Arrecife, José Antonio Lasso, present at the event, was proud and satisfied with this fleet renovation, which he described as the most important in history, and which will allow from now on that the Local Police of Arrecife is among the best equipped, and with state-of-the-art equipment. During the event there was an exhibition of the Drone Unit of the Local Police.
The mayor was accompanied by a wide representation of the agents of the Local Police Corps who from now on have more means to continue serving the citizens of Arrecife, and ensure citizen security.
This presentation coincided with the delivery of keys from the company awarded the tender, whose directors were present in the Park of Los Luchadores of Altavista.
Yonathan de León closed the act stating that "having a well-equipped police force is essential to ensure that the residents of Arrecife feel safe", underlining the commitment of the government team to citizen security. "My municipal government will always be committed to police work and to making Arrecife a safe and protected capital."