THE patience of the Amargacena Neighborhood Association of the Guadalquivir district With the closure of the joint police station, launched in 2007, it is exhausted. Her presidentIsabel Márquez explained yesterday to ABC that they will raise their voice after these facilities “did not reopen post-Covid.”
Thus, this group will achieve this Wednesday a press conference and concentration in front of the headquarters of Government subdelegation. They will demand that the national and local police station resume their activity. They claim that their neighborhood It was “safer” how much did it cost operational. “Before, you would call and the officers would arrive instantly. Now you call and, for them to come, I laugh… so as not to cry,” said the president of Amargacena.
“Facilities of this type are needed in our neighborhood. When the police station was in operation, this area was different,” Márquez said. “we have left both for the National Police as for the Local. Nobody comes here. Well, we are left in the hands of God, on the part of the Town Hall, the Board of Directors… Of all the organizations”, he declared, showing the fatigue of the inhabitants of an enclave confronted to enormous structural problems of socio-economic development.
The head of this neighborhood association regretted that the the police station was closed due to the pandemicbut “the Covid past and they didn’t have the decency to call us to tell us what happened to him, because they didn’t give it back has open. We sent two letters to meet with the deputy government delegate, Ana López, and she did not respond to us. We are very burned“.
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He recalled that this safety equipment was put into service after “it will cost us a lot of work» that the Administrations he will activate. It was in 2002 that this neighborhood group raised the need for equipment of this type among its demands for the improvement of the neighborhood. It entered service in March 2007.
Márquez argued that they will start to move and “we will not stand still.” He assured that, if his request is not met, this neighborhood association will also take its complaint to the Municipal Council, which extends to other issues such as “cleaning”.
It is good to remember that in April the plenary session of the Consistoryin a joint movementon improvement actions in the Southern District, agreed by urging the municipal and national governments to “reopen the joint police station, ensuring a greater police presence and a more effective response to the security needs of citizens”.
