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Mayor visits the camp, which is organized for the second time in order to sensitize schoolchildren about interventions to help the Armed Forces and Security Forces carried out abroad.

It is anticipated the influx of more than a thousand children.

Nearly a thousand students from schools in the municipality today visited the Garden of the Malecón, where all day the media will be displayed using the military and state security forces in international missions engaged to assist in situations of emergency abroad.

The Mayor, Miguel Angel House, and the Government Commissioner, Joaquín Bascuñana, accompanied by the Councillor for Equality Policies and Development Cooperation, Alicia Barquero, have not missed the appointment, and have made a tour of the camp, knowing directly resources being made by the institutions participating in missions abroad.

It is the second time that this initiative is organized, after checking the success that was achieved last year.

In addition to the human and technical resources, visitors will also find dog shows to be offered by the Navy, National Police and Civil Guard.

Also, high school students will have the opportunity to assist in the assembly hall of the Palace Almudí two talks in which participants in missions abroad by slides and documentaries explain interventions done in emergency situations.

This sample International Missions is part of the activities undertaken by the City of Murcia on development cooperation projects to disasters and humanitarian assistance and coordination with other public administrations.

By its nature, the geographical areas in which the city of Murcia special attention are the developing countries of Central America, South America, Africa and parts of South and East Asia.

In many of these countries the City of Murcia has been subsidizing development cooperation projects and provide humanitarian aid in those times when it was necessary as a result of some kind of disaster, as was the case in Honduras (1998), Argentina ( 2002), Ecuador (2008), Haiti and Cuba (2008), Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam (2009), El Salvador (2009) and Haiti (2010).

At the same time, the military and state security forces acting in Spanish humanitarian relief and peacekeeping missions, along with international institutions based in Spain.

In today's session involved the following units:

ARMY: III BPAC "Ortíz de Zárate"

- Photo Exhibition and videos.

- Exposure of arms and organic material from the BPAC III.

Civil Protection Service City of Murcia

- In addition to providing first aid if necessary, often using resources exhibit regularly in its activities with volunteers and missions being made.

NATIONAL POLICE

- Guide dogs

- Unit motorcycles

- Vans UPR (in riot gear)

- Forensics

- EOD

AIR FORCE: EZAPAC (Sewer)

- Shop for static display of weapons.

- Shop for demonstration of night vision goggles.

- Mini-track American children (aged 3-12 years).

- Step semipermanent strings for children (between trees).

- Static display of a vehicle URO.

POLICE

- Helicopter Service: A representative of the unit has participated in international missions.

- Traffic Sector: Two motorcycles and alcohol testing vehicle.

- Public Safety Unit (USECIC): Off-road vehicles, crowd control material and input for housing.

- EOD Group (GEDEX): Technical material localization and deactivation.

- Service for the Protection of Nature (SEPRONA): Motorcycle road and material used in the art.

- Service cynological: A guide to can and store materials.

- Criminalistics Laboratory of Organic Unit of the Judicial Police (UOPJ): Unit Components for material inspections.

- Underwater Group (GEAS): Components with van, zodiac and material used in dives.

SPANISH ARMADA

- Unit dependent Cinológica Naval Police.

- A stand with material Dive Center of the Navy (CBA)

SPANISH RED CROSS

- Field hospital for up to 50 people.

- SVB vehicle (ambulance) and auxiliary vehicles SUV.

- Material used in international missions (stretchers, emergency kits, blankets .....)

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia