The Puerto de Mazarrón Barracks are overwhelmed with work this summer, since AUGC we have been denouncing the lack of troops and the need for territorial reorganization of the barracks in the 5th Zone of Murcia.
The criminal level in our Region has increased by 6.3% in the first quarter of the year (Balance of Criminality 2019 of the Secretary of State) being very remarkable the increase of 43.8% of the municipality of Mazarrón of exclusive competence of the civil Guard.
All citizens residing in the territorial demarcation of the Civil Guard are witnesses of the lack of security patrols, citizen, the temporary closure of the various barracks in the Region and the excessive response time of a patrol when a due notice is received to the large surveillance zone (sometimes traveling distances of more than 50 km to the warning)
The headquarters of the Port of Mazarrón covers the municipality of Mazarrón, Isla Plana and Mazarrón of the municipality of Cartagena and Ramonete and Punta de Calnegre of the municipality of Lorca, in total over 400 square km of land to be monitored, combining beaches, mountains and urban centers.
The census population in the municipality of Mazarrón is about 36,000 inhabitants and the seasonal population exceeds 100,000, being a coastal area very visited by national and foreign tourists.
To monitor that large area and properly serve the 100,000 residents and visitors, this summer there is a staff of 30 civil guards in the Mazarrón barracks, of which only about 15 are dedicated to patrolling the streets, beaches and mountains, while that the rest are responsible for collecting complaints, administration and investigation inside the quartering.
In this way, every civil guard on the street must take care of more than 6000 citizens, a company impossible to carry out.
Therefore, it is not surprising that civil guards are saturated with work and the barracks with queues of whistleblowers waiting to be served.
From AUGC we denounce again the lack of troops and demand that the staff of the Main Post of Mazarrón be increased to 80 troops before the end of the year and that an urgent commission is made for the month of August of at least 30 civil guards with the in order to guarantee the safety of the neighbors and avoid the work saturation of the template of this quartering.
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It has representation throughout the Spanish territory, in each of the units and specialties of the Corps and has been leading the associative movement since the arrival of democracy, when it was born as a clandestine union.
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Source: AUGC