Coalición Canaria has demanded the implementation of a Strategic Security Plan to put an end to the "serious security problems" that it claims exist in certain parts of the municipality of Tías, especially at night.
“We are talking about truly serious situations: tourists who report assaults in the area of the Atlántico Shopping Center, who alert through social networks of the continuous existence of robberies, beatings, drugs, prostitution and all kinds of threats that are becoming more and more common and that is increasing fear and the feeling of insecurity both among our neighbors and among those who visit a municipality that, unfortunately, is beginning to be considered one of the black spots on the island”, warns the CC spokesperson in Tías, Amado Vizcaíno.
Faced with this situation, the nationalists have presented a motion that will be debated in the plenary session this Tuesday, in which they propose the creation of a security table made up of all the political forces that make up the Corporation and those responsible for the Local Police, Civil Guard and technicians in security matters.
Within its proposal, CC insists on the creation of a specific night security plan in the "controversial area of the Atlántico Shopping Center", in the town of Puerto del Carmen, with reinforcement of Civil Guard agents, and that the process be urgently initiated to fill the vacant positions in the Local Police staff.
In this regard, Vizcaíno affirms that "the government group led by José Juan Cruz has not only been unable to complete the process to fill the five vacancies existing in the staff at the beginning of the mandate, but that given their negligence, the only thing that has been achieved is that now, three years later, there are not five but 14 unfilled positions that the Local Police has, due to the retirement of several of the agents".
"We need to get to work now"
“We cannot allow the main tourist town of Lanzarote to end up becoming one of the most dangerous areas. We need to get to work now!, that a group of reports be formed that is available to citizens 24 hours a day, every day of the week, that each work shift be covered with a minimum of six agents, and that there be at least two patrols on the street”, insists the councilor.
Likewise, Amado Vizcaíno emphasizes that security "is an essential element that marks the development and progress of any place in the world and that is especially taken into account in areas that live from tourism", as is the case of Tías.
Therefore, he emphasizes that “it is very important that the administrations that have powers in this matter adopt measures that guarantee the well-being of citizens, as we have done from CC with the numerous motions that in this line, we have taken to plenary and that range from the payment of overtime to the agents to the preparation of a work calendar or the proposals to end illegal drinking parties”.