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The Department of Traffic and Public Safety has already established a special device on the occasion of the Christmas and Epiphany given the significant increase in both traffic around major shopping centers in the city, as citizens transiting through the streets of town especially in the center and in the neighborhood of El Carmen.

In this plan the device prepared by the local police in Murcia to ensure road safety and mobility of citizens and to prevent theft and unauthorized hawking collected.

The overall objective of the Plan is to ensure traffic urban mobility during the days of heaviest traffic, avoiding double rows of vehicles and stops and parking in bus and taxi areas, seeking to handicapped areas and sidewalks are respected and controlling pedestrian areas and parking areas for loading and unloading.

Depending on the intensity of the movement, this plan will have established points of regulation of traffic in sequence, in which the driver will be meeting with agents continuously along your itinerary, with the aim of providing vehicles maximum ease of movement.

To meet these objectives have 60 agents of the Versatile and bikers Groups, which focus their action on the dynamics of preferential pathways attention to road safety, traffic police, at fixed points of particular interest to maintain the flow in the same .

By the Group of Barrios, 70 Agents take care of traffic on the same duties as motorists, but this time, in non-preferential paths in their areas.

However, despite the interest and efforts of the local police in achieving normal traffic, it will not be possible if you do not have the support and cooperation of citizens, so the opportunity is used to make a call this regard and make some simple recommendations:

- Forward if possible Christmas shopping, avoiding perform the last days.

- Always respect the instructions of the traffic control agents.

- Use public transportation, pursuing a better traffic flow.

- Use helmet on mopeds and motorcycles to minimize the severity of injury in an accident.

- Use public parking, avoiding violations and traffic difficulties.

- Do not drink alcohol when driving and respect speed limits and other signals, increasing road safety.

It should be noted that the primary attention will be paid to certain events planned to impact on traffic, including:

- GREAT SANTA CLAUS PARADE: on December 24, at 12:00 pm, with the following schedule: C / Proclamation, Priests Brothers Ceron, Alameda de Colón, Avenida Canalejas, Old Bridge, Plaza Martínez Tornel, C.. / Thomas Maestre, Glorieta de Spain C / Arenal, Cardinal Belluga Square Apostles, C / Isidoro de la Cierva Plaza Cetina, C / Alejandro Séiquer, Plaza de Santo Domingo, C / Santa Clara.

- CARRERA "SAN SILVESTRE - MURCIA": on December 31, at 17:30, with the following schedule: Glorieta of Spain, Lieutenant.

Flomesta, Pte. Hospital, Av. Infante D. Juan Manuel, Plaza. Volunteers, Av. Infante D. Juan Manuel, bridge Fica, Av. Infante D. Juan Manuel, Bridge Hospital, Ronda de Garay, C / Obispo Frutos Avda. Lostau Rector, C / Greco, New Gate, C / Merced, C / Alejandro Seiquer, Isidoro de la Cierva, C / Apostles Plaza. Cardenal Belluga, C / San Patricio, Gran Via Salzillo, Plaza. Fuensanta, Great Via arrival to Mtez.

Tornel.

- Kings Parade: on January 5, 2015, at 18:30, with the following route: Paseo Marques de Corvera, Plaza González Conde, Alameda de Colón, Avenida de Canalejas, Old Bridge Plaza Martínez Tornel. , Gran Via Sculptor Salzillo, Avda. de la Constitución, Plaza Circular (outside), Gran Via Alfonso X El Sabio (sidewalk of Jesus Maria) arrival to Avda. Gutiérrez Mellado.

On the other hand, it has scheduled a specific security plan in order to increase security and normal coexistence.

For this service with uniformed patrols will be reinforced in the commercial area of ​​the city center and El Carmen, with special emphasis on controlling unauthorized hawking and preventing violations of municipal regulations and other uncivil behavior .

Thus, in certain places where there is police presence, as a novelty, posters were placed at that location indicating that there are agents to serve the public

Special mention is made of the night of December 31 to January 1 in which the service will be strengthened, in the Plaza de Santo Domingo, both from the point of view of traffic in the vicinity and the public safety.

It was also be present in the vicinity of the church of El Carmen on the occasion of the bells and lucky grapes that are already traditional in that place.

For this purpose 50 police Panel of Public Safety will complement effective Borough Police and Public Safety, that foot patrol assigned areas to walk, with the support of the patrol vehicles of the Group.

Their work will coincide with those of the business, encompassing every day, weekdays and holidays, from December 9 until January 10, with the following schedule:

Mornings: 10:00 to 15:00 hours.

Afternoons: 16:30 to 22:00.

The preferred areas of activity are Plaza de Santo Domingo, Alfonso X the Wise and nearby Plaza Julian Romea, Silverware, Tatters and nearby Gran Vía (Fuensanta Square and nearby) and Barrio del Carmen.

It will also take into account especially places where events scheduled in the Christmas and Three Kings, like the Plaza de Romea develop, Plaza Santo Domingo Plaza Belluga ...

This special device called the program "Police Close + Visible" launched earlier this year adds.

This service will be held on the following criteria:

- The assigned agents will use reflective garment, so they are easily recognizable by pedestrians.

- The service will be on foot patrol consisting of two agents.

- Will be contacted users of each of the areas (merchants, passers-by, ...)

- This service is provided in the zones and days of greater concentration of citizens in public places.

For this there will be a total of 18 police officers who will develop the following activities in afternoon and evening hours:

A) OAC (Office of Citizen Services)

The Mobile Office will remain in the Plaza de Santo Domingo and Plaza Fuensanta from 17:30 to 23:30, Sunday to Wednesday and from 17:00 to 1:00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

B) preventive patrols

Patrols through the streets and square located in the downtown area: between the Circular Square of Spain, c / Plaza Mayor Saavedra Fajardo and approximately square.

The schedule will be tailored to the circumstances of each day, going from 17:00 to 02:30 hours.

Similarly, the service launched last October, called 'Leisure sure', will be increased since, during the student holidays, youth hangouts are more numerous.

Various squares and gardens located in the town and in villages, used for that purpose will be patrolled from the 5th of December and until the eve of the Feast of Three Kings by four policemen, between 17:30 and 00: 30 hours, according to a program established in accordance with the experience of the past weekend;

however, you can change the time and areas depending on the perceived needs and demands received.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia