Prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and dealers have taken over an abandoned lot in the Peru neighborhood of the capital of Tenerife, land that is 57% owned by the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, to roam freely and provoke the desperation of the residents of the area, who cannot even take their children to the nearby playground because “they play with people getting stuck next to them,” denounced yesterday the representative of the owners of Phase 5 of Divina Pastora, Manuel Vicente Rodríguez, in the municipal plenary session.
The more than 180 families that live in this area of the Salud-La Salle district have been asking the Corporation for two years to clean the lot, where there are already shanties and a lot of garbage that have led to the presence of rats. “The solution is as easy as covering the door with blocks and cement, but they continue to ignore us and we can’t take it anymore, because we have seen how prostitutes are beaten, clients with their pants down and even pimps fighting over who gets paid. the money for the service,” Rodríguez said.
The neighborhood spokesperson intervened in support of the motion presented by the PSOE spokesperson, Patricia Hernández, who questioned the municipal government group about the measures to be taken by allowing neighbors to “live with robberies, fights, threats, drugs, prostitutes and a lot of insecurity.” Likewise, she criticized that the City Council has announced a daily police reinforcement, “when the Local Police only passes by if the neighbors call them.”
For her part, the Councilor for Urban Planning and head of the Salud-La Salle district, Zaida González, explained that “there are many bureaucratic obstacles that are slowing down the solution to the walling of the lot, since a part of it corresponds to private owners.” She stated that work is being done to provide an urgent response to the problem, although the presence of agents in this area “is the responsibility of the National Police Corps,” she clarified.
Although the socialist motion was rejected by CC, PP and Vox, the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, announced that he will hold a meeting with those affected to outline a roadmap with which to solve the problem “without skipping the administrative procedure that it entails.” .
police headquarters
In another order, the plenary session addressed the future headquarters of the Local Police in the General Antequera building, following a motion defended by the socialist councilor, Patricia Hernández, who asked the City Council to execute the project for the conditioning and opening of the police station. in these disused premises.
The mayor of Infrastructure, Javier Rivero, reiterated that “the project is drafted and will be informed at the time of its execution. At the moment – he noted – we are rehabilitating the current headquarters on Avenida 3 de Mayo, without Titanlux paint or makeup effect. It is an improvement and modernization of the spaces that includes the resurfacing of the parking lot, new bathrooms and changing rooms, lockers, repair of water leaks and even the creation of an office with a kitchen for the agents.”
Meanwhile, Vox moved forward with its motion to start prevention and information campaigns on cyber scams. The spokesperson, Alejandro Gómez, asked that they be “aimed at young people and the elderly, groups most vulnerable to these crimes.”
The capital will launch the Commerce Roundtable to energize 14 areas
The Tenerife capital will create the Commerce Roundtable in the first half of 2024, which will be in charge of designing a specific revitalization program for the 14 commercial areas of the municipality. This was announced yesterday in the plenary session of the City Council by the CEO of the Development Society, Carmen Pérez, after the motion presented by the socialist councilors, Patricia Hernández and Matilde Zambudio on a plan of measures to help commercial areas. A motion approved unanimously after including a transactional statement by the government team.
On the other hand, the plenary session approved the socialist motion on the strategic plan for Social Services, paralyzed for five years, to be able to provide care to the elderly, disabled and drug addicts. The area councilor, Charín González, announced that in 2024 the plan will be updated and contextualized.
