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The Department of Safety and Traffic, directed by Nuria Fuentes, will develop a program that aims to reduce, mitigate and deter street graffiti, so that you can go alleviating the problem posed by graffiti in Murcia.
During the past year, the local police in Murcia has made 54 interventions 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 to which he was subsequently charged more facts multiple buildings in Murcia.
The council liaises with the police department of New York to develop a plan to reduce and deter graffiti writers.
Given the experience in this area of the NYPD, taking into account the legal instruments to combat these behaviors are different, the City of Murcia has consulted the Police Department of New York to work with the local police in Murcia in this project.
These contacts are to establish lines of action between the two police forces, for which two partners have been appointed, a local police lieutenant in New York and an officer of the Local Police in Murcia to develop a program to reduce graffiti, deter the perpetrators and prosecute the perpetrators.
At the moment it is working with software designed to store and compare the signatures, or "tag" to identify these painted areas with the most active so you can then investigate whether the petitioner had committed this failure on several occasions, being able to aggravate this as a criminal offense and punished by all.
Thus, for this to be a reality in the coming months is to conduct a detailed study of the areas of the municipality in which were found painted, making a comprehensive photo essay of them all.
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.
Once designed the policy agenda will be created within the body of a local police antigrafitti team of special agents, it will become part of criminologists police to prevent these acts of vandalism and prosecute the perpetrators.
Remember that this type of graffiti made in public and private places are not street art, but vandalism, illegal character.
When the local police caught someone doing graffiti, you claim for breach of Article 79 of the Ordinance for street cleaning.
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.
In addition, the local police opened diligence for transmission to the court police.
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.
A crime against property damage, resulting in a fine of six to 24 months depending on the economic condition of the victim and the amount of damage if it exceeds 400 euros.
On offense against the ornate, the penalty is permanent location (house arrest) of two to six days to three to nine days of work for the benefit of the community.
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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