Badalona offers the Department of the Interior to share a new police station in Sant Roc

The Mayor of Badalona, ​​Xavier García Albiol, yesterday received the Minister of the Interior of the Generalitat, Núria Parlon, with the memory of “having fought hard” with the claims of the territory when the person in charge of security in Catalonia was the Mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. A relationship that Albiol joked about saying that “familiarity breeds affection”. The Mayor yesterday offered the Minister the chance to share the future police station that the Badalona City Guard will install in the Sant Roc neighbourhood once the 200 occupants of the old B-9 institute are evacuated. From here on, the immediate demolition of the building will begin to build the new police installation, “initially designed for the City Guard, but which is offered to be shared with Mossos”.

The meeting between García Albiol and Parlon took place after two weeks of serious criminal incidents that corroborate the 6% increase in crime in Badalona. In this regard, the police officials reported that investigations are continuing into the two episodes of shootings, the last one precisely in the Sant Roc neighbourhood, but that they are not related to the incidents in the Mina neighbourhood, where up to 150 shots were fired in the air. The commissioner of Badalona, ​​Alfons Sàrrias, assured that they are different events that are under confidentiality of the proceedings, as are the two homicides committed in a few days in the city.

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Parlon recalled that Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Badalona were pioneer cities in sharing protocols to promote police services, which allowed them to unify “challenges and challenges”. In this way, the councillor recognised that the demand to incorporate more Mossos into the territory and increase their presence on the streets is a common clamour, as is the fight against multiple recidivism, which “is already a priority of the Government”.

The two politicians agreed to meet again to further analyse the crime data at the next local security meeting, which will be held on 21 March. Meanwhile, the actions of the Mossos in the metropolitan area of ​​Nord, and more specifically of the agents in Baix Besòs, as the councillor stated, “have room for improvement” through new operations, such as the Tremall plan, which imposes joint protection measures against multiple recidivism, an issue that is of particular concern to Badalona City Council.

In other matters, a new action plan has been established in the area aimed at detecting firearms and knives through patrols and investigations. The saturation strategy in those places that most concern the City Council is another of the initiatives that Councillor Parlon guaranteed in Badalona, ​​as well as preventive operations in collaboration with local police forces.

At the same time, from a political perspective, the Mayor of Badalona reiterated the need to promote legislative reform that would allow for increased penalties for those types of crime that, such as the possession of firearms, could allow judges to act more quickly.

“The Interior Ministry is working to promote changes in the laws,” said Parlon, with the aim of influencing changes to combat multiple recidivism by “increasing speedy trials.”

The Minister of the Interior concluded that the pressure operations in the neighbourhoods of the municipalities of Besòs where there have been incidents will continue "as long as necessary".