Sources said the council that this will be a punishment for the child not for parents who are the ones who take care of the penalty "
A punishment for the son not the father.
This is the aim of the Department of Safety and Traffic by amending the ordinance to allow street cleaning switch voluntarily to the penalty for graffiti by cleaning the graffiti.
The overall aim is that kids receive the punishment directly since they are usually the parents who are in charge of economic sanctions.
This new legislation may accommodate all those who are punished for making first painted, but never repeat offenders.
Thus, the local police will contact the authors involved in these activities or their parents in the case of minors, who will be offered to replace the amount of financial penalty in exchange for the author to make graffiti cleaning tarnished those goods.
If the nature and characteristics of the painting, cleaning is not possible to be set up other work for the benefit of the community is always related to street cleaning.
Thus, with the sanction that is sent to the address was accompanied by a letter offering this possibility.
Similarly, the Department will target schools to publicize this change in ordinance.
The aim now, as the Security council and Circulation, Nuria Fuentes, is initiating a series of meetings with associations of parents, neighbors and merchants, Local Youth Council and other groups to agree and the details of this new legislation .
Remember that the Local Police Corps of Murcia is in operation since September 2009, a team antigraffitis which aims to prevent and combat the conduct of graffiti or graffiti in different public or private.
Conducting a graffiti causes extensive damage not only the City of Murcia for the many painted on public buildings and street furniture, but also to individuals who daily suffer this type of vandalism on the facades of their buildings, garage doors, commercial low ...
This team, whose specific job it develops a corporal and an officer, has taken in those 16 months about a hundred performances in this area:
- Nineteen of these actions have been proceedings concerning alleged criminal misconduct against the ornament.
In more severe cases might constitute a crime or injury against Heritage, depending on each case.
- Sixteen of them have made administrative complaints for violation of Article 78-H of the Ordinance, street cleaning, punishable by a fine of 30 to 150 euros.
- In the other (65 interventions), and photographic reports made to that effect have become part of the database of the local police for further study.
Currently this database antigraffitis team has more than 3,500 photographic archives.
Of the 16 administrative penalties, 50% have been brought under 18 years, and the rest for kids between 18 and 21.
Furthermore none of them has been a repeat offender.
You could stand out as more relevant services carried out by local police units, which then are related:
- On May 9, 2009 was observed in the calle Doctor Tapia Sanz, Murcia, a twenty year old who climbed the fence of a local security, was on a clear inscription painted with the word "Kicks", then going to the Garden of the Constitution which rewrote the same inscription, both with spray paint.
A unit intercepted the young process of identification, at which time the suspect, reported that "is an impulse that I can not master" and "always equal sign to acknowledge my friends."
In addition, we noted that there were numerous graffiti city with the same tag, so, accompanied by appropriate photographic, were instructed in proceedings of the National Commissioner of Police, accusing an alleged ongoing lack of Article 626 of the Code Criminal.
- On September 18, 2009, after the appearance around the time of many painted in the form of text, where offenses and insults directed at the Guardia Civil and other institutions of state in almost all cases accompanied by symbols Nazis, where you could clearly read include: "Civil Guard Dogs Murderers" and "Guardia Civil Put Chips in brain, Rape, Torture and Kill "..., might be related to the alleged perpetrator of these acts with a previous performance , doing errands in offices of the National Police, who were accompanied by a corresponding 32-painted photographic allegedly made by the same person.
- On June 17, 2010, and through the work of analysis, study and research carried out using the pictures in the computer database of graffiti, it was possible to relate to many graffiti located in different parts of the city, less than 17 years previously, had been caught doing graffiti on the window of a store, directing inquiries to the team antigraffitis Juvenile Prosecutor Murcia.
- On October 20, 2010 and in the same way it has been possible to relate to two young men with various graffiti located in different parts of the city that previously had been caught by two painted on the facade of a commercial premises, instructing antigraffitis team also measures aimed at the Court of Guard and Office.
The Local police work is not solely focused on repressive measures but is strongly committed to other preventive measures such as the briefings that have been teaching in various schools in the county, particularly in HEIs, aimed at young adolescents in many cases ignore the scope or negative impact this type of activity generates.
Moreover, in this period, the team has also received through the email address (@ ayto-murcia.es policia.antigraffiti) and the Citizens Advice Bureau, 90 citizen demands for the realization of painted properties.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia