A joint device of Mossos d'Esquadra and Policia Nacional identified 150 people in the district of Sant Martí and in Sant Adrià de Besòs, in an operation of the Kanpai plan deployed on Wednesday with support from the Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona and the local police of Sant Adrià.
Among these 150 identifications, the agents detected a total of 1,182 accumulated criminal records. The figure contrasts with the immediate result of the operation, which resulted in four arrests, three of them for immigration law and another for an arrest warrant processed by the Guàrdia Urbana.
Agents detected 1,182 records among 150 people
The operation mobilized more than 40 agents from Mossos d'Esquadra and about twenty from Policia Nacional, in addition to personnel from the Guàrdia Urbana and the local police of Sant Adrià. The deployment focused on both public roads and the metro, two of the spaces where the autonomous body maintains periodic checks in this area.
Mossos d'Esquadra frames these actions within the pressure on repeat offenders and the intervention of bladed weapons and narcotic substances. In that balance on Wednesday, the agents also registered one person under criminal investigation.
The operation also resulted in five reports for possession of substances and one for possession of weapons. Three traffic reports and another three for violation of municipal ordinances were added to that count.
The Kanpai plan has expelled 35 high-risk criminals
The device is part of the Kanpai plan, activated by Mossos d'Esquadra in April 2025 to act on repeat offending in Barcelona. Since its implementation, the force has expelled 35 foreign high-risk criminals who had committed robberies in the city during the last year.
In parallel, the plan has also focused on the public transport network. In four months, agents have arrested 85 repeat offenders for robberies on TMB buses, one of the scenarios where the force has reinforced surveillance.
The police pressure coincides with the entry into force in April of the new law against repeat offending, which introduces prison sentences for petty theft.