The tender for the video surveillance cameras of The Veronicas, in Playa de las Américas, will be a reality this summer, as has been announced in recent months. The project, a historical vindication of the citizenship of Aronahas financing and all the specifications have already been completed, which will allow it to be tendered immediately, once the 2021 budget has been settled.
The citizens of Arona, and especially the accommodation and restaurant sector of Playa de Las Américas, had spent decades demanding the installation of these video surveillance cameras and, after months of work after obtaining authorization from the Spanish Government Delegation, the Last May, the current ruling group of the Arona City Council has finally managed to make this claim a reality. These are 20 video surveillance cameras in the Las Verónicas shopping center area, between Rafael Puig Lluvina avenue and Francisco Andrade Fumero street in Playa de Las Américas.
On the other hand, the works for the future placement of the 16 cameras of El Fraile are also going at a good pace. The drafting of the technical specifications for its tender is quite advanced, after the Arona City Council obtained the authorization of the Government delegation in the Canary Islands last November, after years of demands from the residents of the urban nucleus.
The Councilor for Security, Francisco Marichal, emphasizes that “we have always worked giving expectations in a realistic and transparent way, explaining at all times the steps we were taking. From the beginning we said that the cameras of Las Verónicas would be tendered this summer and, indeed, it will be so”.
Delay in Las Verónicas, according to the PP
The Popular Party, however, denounces the “systematic breaches of this local government in terms of security.”
For councilor Daniel González Rov, “it is unfortunate that public opinion is manipulated in this way”, recalling that “in 2018, this Government already made announcements about the installation of cameras in Las Verónicas, and a little over a year ago, the Councilor for Security and the mayor himself assured in the press that they already had authorization from the Government Delegation to install the aforementioned cameras, and that, therefore, they would start operating shortly.
