Andorra la VellaThe criminal offenses reported in La Seu d’Urgell this past year have decreased by 5.4% with respect to the previous twelve months, according to data available to the Mossos d’Esquadra and that were shown this Tuesday at the Local Security Boardwhich has been carried out at the Urgellenc Town Hall presided over by the mayor, John Barrera. Specifically, according to this report presented by the Mossos, from December 2023 until now 440 criminal offenses have been reported in the city, while the previous year there were 465.
By type of crime, the main thickness continues corresponding to the committed against the heritagewhich includes house or car burglaries and amounting to 231although there are nine fewer than last year, when there were 240 (-3.8%). In second place there are the crimes against peoplewhich include assaults or threats: there have been 147seven less than in the previous count, when there were 154 (-4.5%).
according to RadioSeuthe crimes that have fallen the most are those related to the road safety: there have been 30compared to 38 last year (-21.1%). Instead, crimes against public order and also crimes against public health have increased by 20%although these they are still in the minority and therefore the increase is not significant: in both cases last year there were 5 and now there have been 6. Finally, in the section of “other” criminal acts, 20 were reported, three less than last year (-13%).
Close to a hundred arrests
As for all the criminal offences, the Board was told that 65% solveda smaller percentage (-5.5%) than last year, when a crime resolution rate of 71.2% was reached. However, the number of arrests has been the same as the previous year: 95. An important part of these arrests correspond, both in the last year and the one before, to the small group of multi-recidivist criminals that the police have already identified in the city.
About 1,750 administrative actions
At the meeting it was also reported that in recent months the Administrative police has made a total of 1,740 performances. Of this amount, the main thickness has corresponded to closing controls of public premises (359)to garbage can checks (354) already lost items (266). Between these three blocs they concentrate more than half of the performances (56.2% in total).
Even further away are the interventions for damage (116), occupations of public roads (110), controls at the weekly market (100), actions with dogs (90), abandoned vehicles (73), police reports (73), reports by the City Council (48), complaints related to dogs (32), acts against public premises (10), complaints about public coexistence (9) and complaints against public premises (10).
Alarm caused by repeat offenders
Joan Barrera concludes that the data show that “crime in La Seu has not increased but has even gone down a little”, although he has admitted that “in recent months there have been three people who did the incidents that created social alarm and a sense of public insecurity, which has certainly existed”. Barrera has recalled that these three individuals have already been classified as “multi-recidivist criminals” and has reported that right now “they are no longer at Headquarters”, with which he trusts that now “this tension they generated will be reduced, because they were the perpetrators of the vast majority of crimes and robberies that have recently occurred in our city.” For this reason, the batlle concludes that “we live in a sufficiently safe and sufficiently comfortable environment”, if compared with other Catalan cities.
About the request to cover places of the Municipal Policewhich the Junts municipal group has done over the last few months, the mayor of La Seu has stated that a call to be able to expand the staff within three to five months. Specifically, a new police position will be created, two more public road assistant positions and the last one will come through a service commission.
Aim to reduce occupied properties
In any case, at the Board, the council has asked that there also be a reinforcement of vigilance and of the troops in general, with regard to all the security forces present in the city. And with regard to the problem of illegal and conflictual occupations that affects the urban core, and especially a block of Carrer Sant Joan Baptista de la Salle, Joan Barrera has asked that work continue “so that they become unoccupied and do not cause problems” towards the neighbors, and trusts that “in a short time it will be completely unoccupied” the aforementioned building, although he has detailed that in those cases in which it is established that they are really people in a vulnerable situation, and that they have not caused conflicts with the neighbors , they will be offered the possibility of staying on the block – owned by SAREB – “paying an amount that allows them to stay there”.
As for the noise complaintswhich in most cases allude to the night entertainment venuesconcludes that it has been possible to “appease because there have been actions and closures of premises”. And although he points out that it is always “difficult to reconcile nighttime leisure with the rest of the neighbors, he believes that work is being done to make them as compatible as possible.
Joan Barrera also sees the need to strengthen the complicity between the police forces and the public, and believes that this happens because “not just going around with the car”. In any case, he thanked once again the collaboration of all the bodies present at the Headquarters: Municipal Police, Mossos d’Esquadra, National Police and Civil Guard. The Spanish Government’s subdelegate in Lleida, José CrespÃn, also took part in the meeting.