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The City Council takes up special teams of local police antigraffitis (03/11/2009)

• The prevention, through lectures, courses and workshops in schools, is another action in which the emphasis would

· Citizens can assist local police in an e-mail that will enable

The Department of Safety and Traffic, directed by Nuria Fuentes, will launch several special teams in different units, both in the city and the districts, working to prevent and combat the increased activity related to graffiti painted or made in public spaces or private.

The groups will be formed and led by a corporal and an officer, and will feature technical material camera, laptop, etc .- with which to expand the database designed to identify the perpetrators of such acts of vandalism.

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Prevention will be one of the key points in the Department of Safety and Traffic will place special emphasis.

At the moment they are carrying out the development of the programming of the campaigns to be conducted in schools.

These campaigns will focus mainly on lectures, workshops and courses for teens, providing information about the damage that occurs in our town this activity.

During the past two months, the Local Police Force has become an archive of more than 3,000 photographs, of which 35% are repeated images, which are attributed by the same authors.

It has conducted a detailed study of areas of the municipality in which were found painted, making a comprehensive photo essay of them all.

The most common locations are: garden furniture, public buildings and commercial blinds.

This will use the information already gathered by the local police and request cooperation of citizens, in addition to analyzing the different firms that normally accompanies the paintings.

The computer file of the local police can record and compare the graffiti signatures, or "tag" that identifies and areas where more active.

This identification will also enable the author to investigate whether this lack has committed at different times, thus being able to aggravate criminal offense and punished by all.

Citizen collaboration

Already operating a specific email address (@ ayto-murcia.es policia.antigraffiti) for citizens to send communications regarding this issue.

To start this journey has been in frequent contact with the Metropolitan Police of New York, which has set an ambitious collaborative project.

It is noteworthy that during the past year have conducted over 54 performances in this area, highlighting the arrest of a young man to make numerous painted rail cars and more than a dozen buildings in the city that was then more facts charged in multiple buildings of Murcia.

Remember that this type of graffiti made in public and private places are not street art, but vandalism, illegal character.

The performance of such acts may be, as appropriate, in the following ways:

Conduct inquiries in units of the Corps and State Security Forces (CN Police and Civil Guard, as appropriate), they may be classified as non-criminal offense or damage or against Heritage / offense against the ornament.

Local Police diligence police opened for transmission to the court.

Offenses against the criminal code applied in this sense a crime against the historical heritage, and carry prison sentences of six months to three years.

You can impose a fine of twelve to twenty four months and in any case, special disqualification time profession or trade for one to five years.

In any case, the judge or court may order, by the author of the painting, reconstruction or restoration work.

Formulating administrative complaints for violation of Municipal Ordinance Road Clean-Article 79), punishable by a fine of 30 to 150 euros.

It carries penalties for minor violations from 30 to 150 euros, the gross of 151 of 6,000 euros, the very serious of 6,001 to 12,000 euros.

The graffiti costs money to all Murcia, and that the City of

Murcia has to deal with the cleanup of these graffiti in public places, which involves an expenditure of municipal budget that could be used for other purposes than necessary.

Thus, Murcia has become the first town in the region to have this service.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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