The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, announced yesterday that the Government of the Canary Islands “is going to decree the Quadrilateral area and its surroundings as a public health risk area“, Which will facilitate” a lot “that the troops, both the Local Police and the National Police, in the streets adjoining and adjacent to the Quadrilateral,” can requisition all alcoholic substances and sound devices, so that problems do not occur we are having noise and crowds ”in the macrobottles that are taking place in this nightlife area of La Laguna in the last weekends.
Thus, this decree will facilitate the work of the Local Police and the National Police when establishing access controls, security and requisitioning alcoholic beverages.
This was one of the measures agreed in yesterday’s meeting between different administrations in order to establish new security and control measures in this nightlife area of La Laguna.
A meeting in which the mayor, the subdelegate of the Government, Javier Plata; the general director of Child and Family Protection of the Government of the Canary Islands, Iratxe Serrano; the insular director of Mobility of the Cabildo de Tenerife, José Alberto León, and the representative of the Canary Health Service Álvaro Torres Plana; as well as the commanders of the National Police and the Local Police, and the Laguneros councilors of Social Welfare, Citizen Security and Commerce.
The operation will start this weekend. Specifically, from 8:00 p.m. today. “We are going to limit access with a series of filters in the streets adjacent to the Quadrilateral. The idea is, in these access controls, to requisition the bottles of alcohol and sound equipment ”, explained the mayor.
In addition, “coordination between the different bodies of the Local Police and the National Police will be increased” to “have a greater number of agents”, not only present in the Quadrilateral, but also “in other areas that we have detected where they are carrying out previous bottles ”, he added.
Likewise, the parks and recreational areas around the Quadrilateral will also be closed, “so that there are no meetings of these young people who are drinking bottles.”
The collaboration of the Canarian Police has also been requested with the aim of “having more troops at the tram stops that are near the Interchange and Trinidad Avenue”, since it has been detected that there are young people who go up with alcohol to the town . Today there will be a new meeting, of a technical nature, to coordinate the operation.
On the other hand, the mayor made an “appeal to the parents of these young people that we have detected in our municipality, between 15 and 17 years old, who are in an advanced state of intoxication, and we need the collaboration of all.” “For now, the institutions are going to work in a coordinated manner and we are going to put an end to what has occurred in recent weekends,” emphasized Luis Yeray Gutiérrez. Meanwhile, the government subdelegate described the meeting to solve the problem in the Quadrilateral as “positive”, adopting “a series of effective measures that will be implemented immediately.”
The general director of Child and Family Protection of the Government added that “all available mechanisms will be put in place to avoid alcohol consumption and reduce the presence of minors in the area.” Although he clarified that, “evidently, the responsibility of unprotected minors is their parents, they have to be the ones who control these issues. For the part that touches us, of the minors under guardianship, because there we are going to put, together with the Cabildo, which is the one that manages the protection network, all the mechanisms in place “, and pointed out that” it is true that there is some minor escaped and could be susceptible to being in the area at the weekend ”.
