The celebration of Los Dolores will require this year to mobilize more than 150 personnel including security personnel, health personnel, technicians and volunteers, who will ensure the smooth running of the pilgrimage to Mancha Blanca, along with a logistical deployment of cones, separators, fences, beacons, lights, signs, etc.
The plenary hall of the Cabildo of Lanzarote hosted this Monday an Island Security Board to address the protection measures of the next event, which will take place on September 10 to honor the Virgen de Los Dolores, patron saint of the island.
The meeting was attended by the island director of the General State Administration, Juan Ramón Pérez, as well as the participation of the town councils, including Tinajo as host of the event, and all the security forces. The meeting addressed the latest issues related to the measures that will serve to ensure security in the celebration of a pilgrimage so marked in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands.
Along with logistics, the Security Board held this Monday addressed the need to establish, as in previous years, a special transport service, both buses and taxis, to ensure that citizens can go or return home after the important holiday held in the square of the hermitage of Mancha Banca and that brings together thousands of people every year.
"The coordination of administrations is essential for the island festivals to develop with absolute normality, hence these preparatory meetings of the device that will be deployed in Los Dolores 2022, of which will be duly informed for the knowledge of the general public and pilgrims and drivers in particular", said the president of the Consortium of Security and Emergencies, Marcos Bergaz.
"With all the actions that are being valued by the security and emergency forces we seek that the pilgrimage takes place without incident, in a festive and faith day that brings together many residents of Lanzarote and outside the island", adds Bergaz.
The island director of the General State Administration in Lanzarote, Juan Ramón Pérez, also stressed "the importance of coordination between the different security forces to ensure the normal development of the festivities".
For his part, the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machin, stressed "the effort of all security forces, volunteers and administrations for the pilgrimage of Los Dolores to regain this year the normality in its celebration after two years of pandemic"