Torrevieja recovers the land that was going to host the National Police

Torrevieja: The City Without a National Police Presence

Despite already having 100,000 registered inhabitants, Torrevieja continues to be one of the few cities of that size in Spain that does not have a National Police presence. Unlike Orihuela, with a handful fewer registered residents, the salt-mining city has been demanding more police officers to join those who already exist as Civil Guards for the past five years. So much so that, no less than since 2005, the Ministry of the Interior has had land to build this futuristic police station that would welcome the agents of the national corps destined to the urban area and that holds, among other competences, those of foreigners.

Revocation of an Agreement

Faced with the evident breach of the central government for not giving use to the plot ceded in the terms agreed so many years ago, the government of Eduardo Dolón has decided to unilaterally settle that agreement and revert the plot of land on Avenida de las Habaneas to municipal ownership.

The fate of the recovered land remains up in the air

The government team has not specified for what purpose it intends to recover that land. The location of the National Police station was considered ideal at this point of the Torrevejense urban area, having in its immediate vicinity the Civil Guard barracks and the courts. The last thing that was built in this space was the multipurpose building of the City Hall, which was originally going to be used as the Holy Week Museum.

Demands for Security

So far, there have been quite a few times that Eduardo Dolón has demanded from the Government Sub-Delegation more police forces in the face of the increase in crime, in some cases with special emphasis on the hardly controllable phenomenon of the top manta that colonizes the main promenades .The National Police, so far, reduces its services in the city of La sal to the issuance of identity documents from the municipal offices that the corps has assigned on Calle Arquitecto Larramendi.