The City Council of Puerto Lumbreras begin soon the construction of Comprehensive Security Center, the second phase will be financed by the Autonomous Region with 1.5 million under the agreement signed today between the Minister of Presidency and Public Administration, Pedro María Reverte, and the local mayor, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, at the headquarters of the consistory lumbrerense.
The compact, multi-year, let this town have a single center that devices meet local police and Civil Protection and the Emergency Coordination Center City and a computer terminal associated with the single emergency telephone number 112.
The new facility will be built on a municipal plot, located behind the Parador Nacional de Turismo, able to concentrate all emergency services and a heliport.
In addition, the project proposes an expansion of the premises for the local police, according to the template growth experienced in recent years has contributed to the incorporation of agents assigned to the Regional Public Safety Plan.
The town of Puerto Lumbreras currently has a staff of 21 officers, five of which are attached to the Public Safety Unit of the Regional Plan.
Soon be incorporated eight new players, three of which exceeded the selective tests a few days ago, while the remaining five under the second phase of implementation of the Security Plan.
The growth of the workforce of local police officers has been accompanied by an increase in material resources, especially vehicles, which had joined the patrol car provided by the Community for Public Security units, so that existing police facilities no longer meet the conditions for the provision of services resulting from its activities, especially those requiring direct attention to the citizen.
The Minister of Presidency and Public Administration, María Pedro Reverte, said to provide a comprehensive security service and quality "is so necessary to increase the number of troops and their functions are to develop in areas with adequate tools to needs" .
Reverte recalled that the Regional Public Safety Plan planned a series of funds to municipalities to help alleviate the infrastructure deficit, and noted that the Ministry's budget scheduled for 2009 has, as in previous years, with a party to give continuity this type of project.
"Public safety continues to set the agenda of the regional government, and therefore, in these times of economic crisis, while some decrease budget, funds from the Regional Public Safety Plan increase by 2.2 million euros for next year" , said the minister.
The Regional Public Safety Plan, approved in 2006 with the unanimous support of the 45 municipalities in the region, represents a total investment of 300 million euros until 2016, which will incorporate a total of 628 new agents to the bodies local police of the various municipalities in the region, 325 of which are already built into their jobs, and provide them with technical means, and the construction of the Regional Police Academy premises.
Source: CARM