The Local Committee of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC) in San Bartolomé has launched a message of tranquility after the "various attacks" on street furniture, vandalism, thefts in terraces and the shooting that took place this weekend in San Bartolomé.
First, the canaristas express their full support to the State Security Forces and Corps and join the message of tranquility that the City Council itself has issued of San Bartolomé on the morning of this Monday.
For the local spokesman of NC-BC in San Bartolomé, Pablo Yebra, “what is needed now is to remain calm, let the police officers do their work and join the message of tranquility since we are still a safe island for the vast majority of the population who reside and visit it.”
For the canaristas, “the causes that are generating this type of events that generate discomfort and insecurity among the population of the town must be identified, since there are many residents who for several years have been sending us their concern about insecurity in our municipality, without this situation having been resolved”, comments Pablo Yebra, who considers insufficient the number of Local Police officers that a municipality like San Bartolomé maintains, which has increased in population and has a town in continuous expansion and demand for services such as Playa Honda.
However, from NC-BC they consider that the solutions should not only come from the side of police security, but the town of Playa Honda must be "adapted to inclusive and safe urban planning", with more lighting, dynamism in certain areas, better communication and more citizen participation.
“Playa Honda is a dormitory city, with a large number of young people, where many nationalities converge, and where a large part of the residents work and live in other areas of the island, causing a detachment from their closest environment that we must identify and generate public policies”, maintains Pablo Yebra.