PHOTOS: Sergio Betancort
The Citizen Security and Intervention Unit (USCI) of the Local Police of Arrecife is re-launching this Friday, coinciding with the opening of the city's patron saint festivities. This Unit was created in 2012 and was dissolved in August 2016, after the annulment of the selection process by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. Now, the City Council is putting it back into operation, considering that "it is a necessary service for the safety of citizens and it was necessary to recover it."
In this way, the Local Police will have eight specialized agents to reinforce the security of the San Ginés festivities, who will work together with the Local Police, National Police, emergency services and Civil Protection.
"The Local Police of Arrecife is among the pioneers in the Canary Islands in the creation of the unit. Highly trained agents have been selected, with specific courses and additional training that is very good for the capital of Lanzarote," said the councilor of the area, David Duarte.
The agents will work in areas such as illegal immigration, drug dealing, detention of wanted criminals or resolution of petty thefts or robberies. "They will deal with specialities that the municipality currently lacks" and specific cases such as the "canine unit", specifies Duarte.
From the City Council they maintain that the USCI, during its years of operation, "was constituted as the only Unit of these characteristics in Lanzarote, being a reference on the Island and requested on many occasions by other municipalities, in commission of services, on the occasion of the celebration of events that demanded a special operation in matters of Citizen Security."
