SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 4 (EUROPE PRESS) –
In 2021, the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 assisted 568,152 people who requested different types of help and responded to 565,419 incidents that were resolved by activating resources or through sector technicians from the rooms operational.
This behavior in the development of the 1-1-2 activity, especially in the incidents that generate the mobilization of resources, supposes a recovery of the values prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which were conditioned by the state of alarm and the increase in demand for assistance related to the coronavirus, until it was assumed by the specific line of attention to COVID.
Multisectoral incidents in which several emergency services participate in resolution are the ones that registered the greatest increase compared to 2020. Within this type of incident, accidents are the ones that experienced the highest growth, with almost 11%. This increase was mainly due to the cessation of the measures established by the state of alarm, in 2020, which confined the population and restricted activities, minimizing the accident rate.
By type, four out of every ten accidents were traffic accidents with a total of 17,751 and an increase of 13.5%. Traffic accidents in which it was necessary to assist an injured person amounted to 7,224 -15.4% more than in 2020- and those in which there was only material damage totaled 10,527 -12.2% more than in past year-.
In this sense, traffic accident alerts received at 1-1-2 Canarias through the e-call system increased by 38% compared to 2021. This system, launched by the European Union, immediately performs a free call to the Coordination Center when detecting an emergency situation and it is included in the factory in vehicles homologated in a compulsory way since 2018 in models M1 (passenger cars up to 9 seats) and N1 (light industrial vehicles, up to 3,500 kilos).
On the other hand, sports and work accidents also grew by 50% and 25% respectively, resolving a total of 595 and 874 incidents. Accidents in mountains and ravines and search and rescue of people totaled 504 and increased by almost 38%. Lastly, there were 172 school accidents handled by 1-1-2, 34% more than the previous year.
overall activity
In global figures, the CECOES 1-1-2 served 568,152 people in 2021 who demanded different types of help, of which 207,748, 36.5%, were in a situation of imminent danger to life, property or property. Rights.
In this sense, during the past year the operating rooms of the 1-1-2 Canarias coordinated the resolution of 565,419 incidents, of which 126,422 were resolved by sectoral technicians from the Coordination Center itself, without the need to mobilize external resources.
Of the total registered services, 55.9% were related to the health sector and 29.9% to citizen security. Regarding the rest of the activity, 7.3% of the total was classified as accidents (whether traffic, work, domestic or of another type) and 6.6% corresponded to the firefighting sector, salvage and rescue.
A total of 519,143 emergency resources were activated from the Coordination Center. More than half of them, 276,991, were sanitary; while 197,767 corresponded to the citizen security sector, which includes means of the Local Police, National Police, Civil Guard and the General Corps of the Canarian Police. With regard to the firefighting, salvage and rescue sector, the operating rooms activated 26,036 resources and the rest are related to other types of services.
Regarding the distribution of this activity by territory, 311,246 incidents were located in the eastern islands and 254,173 in the western islands. By islands, Gran Canaria brought together 253,590 incidents, 44.8% of the total, while Tenerife added 230,677, which represents 40.8%. Likewise, the services located in Lanzarote reached the figure of 33,350, in Fuerteventura 24,106 and in La Palma 15,153. In sixth place in terms of the number of incidents, is the island of La Gomera, with 5,159 and finally El Hierro, with 3,184 services.
