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The City Council establishes a special protection plan on the occasion of the Murcia Fair 2018 (28/08/2018)

The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Traffic, Security and Citizen Protection, Lola Sánchez, attended today the meeting of the Local Safety Board, which addressed the special protection device on the occasion of the Fair of September.

The City Council has drawn up a Special Protection Plan for the upcoming holidays, whose main objective is to ensure the safety of citizens of Murcia and visitors, so they can enjoy the holidays with tranquility.

The Specific Protection Plan is structured in six sections:

- Special service device in the Fica fairgrounds: a dozen police officers will monitor this area with a specific character, patrol constantly and equipped with a police vest that facilitates identification.

If necessary, they would have the support of the ordinary service, in addition to the reinforcements that are deemed appropriate.

In addition, a Mobile Police Service Office will be installed to serve as a point of reference for citizens as information, enabling the provision of as many services as the visitor requires.

In this device, Civil Protection also intervenes, which will distribute bracelets to the children to write down a contact telephone so that in case of loss of the child it can be located and communicate it immediately to the parents or tutors, Firemen and Red Cross.

- Pilgrimage Device 2018: This is the most multitudinous act of the fair so the Department will allocate the total of its available cash.

- Moros y Cristianos Devices: Its main parades take place through Plaza Martínez Tornel, Plano San Francisco and Gran Vía Salzillo, so the Local Police will cut traffic in their surroundings, proceeding to make provisional detours through the main rounds of the city.

- Devices for special events: In all the musical acts that take place on the occasion of the 2018 Fair, police service will be provided to ensure the safety of those attending it.

As in the service of the attractions of the Fica, these police officers will be equipped with a reflective police vest that facilitates their identification.

- Device in Los Huertos and Medieval Camp: another mobile police attention office will be installed, complementing the protection service (patrol on foot), allowing a closer approach of the Local Police to the neighbors and visitors who go to the Malecón Garden, providing in this way a better and more effective information and help service.

In addition, and as a complement to the police officers assigned to each of the events or festive events that make up this year's Special Fair Device, 16 non-uniformed agents will be assigned to La Fica (4), the Orchards (4) and in large parades (8).

This action has as its fundamental objective to increase the effectiveness of the regular service that uniforms patrol, especially before certain criminal types related to crimes against property such as theft, theft and crimes against intellectual and industrial property.

As a novelty, this year within the campaign 'No Is No', promoted by the City of Murcia with the aim of getting a party free of sexual assault, will have the installation of Violet Points that will be served by staff of the Care Center Integral to Victims of Aggression and / or Sexual Abuse, Civil Protection and Local Police of Murcia.

During the September celebrations, the violet points will be in the Fica, in the Orchards, in the Romería and in the Concert of the Romería.

Also the circulation of vans and trucks of any tonnage will be prohibited the following days:

- From August 30 to September 11, inclusive, on Primero de Mayo Avenue (from 6:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. the next day);

the interior perimeter formed by the streets Isaac Albéniz, Primo de Rivera, Plaza Circular, Ronda de Levante, Rector José Loustau, Bishop Frutos, Ronda de Garay, Paseo de Garay, Plaza de la Cruz Roja, Lieutenant Flomesta, Plaza Martínez Tornel, Plano of San Francisco, Mayor Gaspar de la Peña, Juan de la Cierva, García Alix, San Andrés and San Antón (between 5:00 p.m. and 03:30 p.m. the next day, except on the 10th, which will begin the ban on the same time but it will end at 07:00 hours on the 11th).

- On August 30 (from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m.) on the following streets: Floridablanca, Marqués de Corvera, Cartagena, Princesa, Romo Tower, Infante don Juan Manuel, Lieutenant Flomesta, San Francisco Plane , Gran Vía Escultor Francisco Salzillo and all the access roads to those cited.

- On September 8 (from 4:00 p.m. to 02:00 p.m. the next day), in the following streets: Romo Tower, Floridablanca, Cartagena, Marqués de Corvera, Princesa, Infante don Juan Manuel, Segura River, Lieutenant Flomesta, Plane of San Francisco, Gran Vía Alfonso X the Wise, Constitution, Marcos Redondo, Acisclo Díaz, Maestro Alonso and all the access streets to them.

- On September 11 (from 07:00 to 09:30) on the streets: Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo, Lieutenant Flomesta, Plano de San Francisco, Infante don Juan Manuel, Princess, Torre de Romo, Marqués de Corvera , Floridablanca, Cartagena, Mozart, San Juan de la Cruz, Painter Almela Costa, Painter Pedro Flores and all the access streets to them.

Vehicles intended for public passenger transport will be exempt from this prohibition.

Traffic cuts on the occasion of the Descent of the Virgin

On Thursday, August 30, the official reception of Our Lady the Virgin of Fuensanta, Patroness of Murcia, is celebrated in the Church of Carmen, for its later transfer to the Holy Cathedral Church.

The descent will begin around 3.30 pm, from the Sanctuary of Fuensanta.

The itinerary that follows is as follows: Sanctuary of Fuensanta, C / Subida Sanctuary of Fuensanta, Sanctuary of Fuensanta, MU-302, Saavedra Fajardo Street, Algezares Street, El Progreso District, Santiago el Mayor , C / Torre de Romo and C / Princesa (Church of Carmen).

At about 7.30 pm he plans to arrive at the Carmen Church, where the Patron will be received, starting his journey to the Cathedral of Murcia, the Alameda de Colón, Puente Viejo, Martinez Tornel Square, Tomás Maestre Street, Glorieta de España ( Puerta del Ayuntamiento), C / Arenal and Plaza Cardenal Belluga (Cathedral Church).

The alternative traffic routes planned are the following:

- When the procession is arriving at the Church of Carmen, at around 7:00 pm, the traffic coming from the Ctra. De Alcantarilla and Ctra. De El Palmar will be diverted by the Avda. De Perea, C / Industria, C / Pintor Pedro Flores, C / Pintor Almela Costa, up to Ronda Sur.

Also, from Avda. Infante D. Juan Manuel to Avda. Río Segura.

- When the arrival ceremony is celebrated in the Church of El Carmen, at around 7:30 p.m. and the journey to the Cathedral begins, traffic will open around the Barrio del Carmen, and the Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo will be cut. Map of San Francisco and Lieutenant Flomesta, diverting traffic through the Rounds, C / Juan de la Cierva and C / Ceballos, respectively.

During the tour they will be giving alternative cuts to vehicle traffic, being points of special interest: Ctra. De Algezares-Santo Ángel, crossing with C / Santuario de la Fuensanta;

Ctra. De Algezares-Los Garres, crossing with the F1 Avda. Región de Murcia de Algezares;

F1 Avda. Region of Murcia de Algezares, El Progreso district, Ronda Sur, Santiago El Mayor and Torre de Romo.

For traffic control a device of 33 agents is established, while Civil Protection will establish a device with an ambulance with a nurse accompanying the delegation during the descent and 4 volunteers will support the ambulance from the Church of Carmen to the Cathedral.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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