A Kanpai operation in the Historic Center of Lleida resulted this Friday at noon in one arrest and about 50 people identified. The operation was deployed in the vicinity of Dipòsit square and gathered about 50 officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Guàrdia Urbana, and the National Police.
During the operation, the agents arrested a person for an alleged crime against public health. In addition, they processed two complaints for possession of bladed weapons, with the consequent confiscation of the weapons, and two more complaints also linked to public health.
The Urban Guard, for its part, reported a person for street vending. Also, five reports were drawn up against an establishment on Boters street for health infractions. In immigration matters, the National Police issued three administrative summonses.
A deployment focused on control and identification
The operation focused on one of the areas that accumulates numerous neighborhood complaints in Lleida. Although the Historic Center is not the area with the most robberies in the city, it does register neighborhood discomfort due to issues such as incivility, the occupation of public thoroughfares, and activities related to receiving stolen goods.
The operation allowed identifying about 50 people in a few hours. That control, police forces maintain, seeks to improve response capacity to criminal acts and keep located repeat offenders or multi-repeat offenders who may act again in the area.
"These actions allow identifying multi-recidivist individuals and keeping them located in case of new crimes" - Rafa Melero, deputy head of Citizen Security of the Mossos in Lleida
"This type of devices facilitates a faster response if a criminal act occurs in the area and, therefore, allows acting with more effectiveness" - Rafa Melero, deputy head of Citizen Security of the Mossos in Lleida
Performances that will be repeated in the city
The Kanpai devices have yielded results considered positive since their implementation and are expected to be repeated again. The first one was carried out in May of last year in the Eix Comercial of Lleida, where several people with a history of robberies with violence and intimidation were arrested.
The intervention this Friday reinforces that line of work in the Historic Center, with coordinated presence of different police forces and a clear objective of preventive control in an especially sensitive area due to neighborhood pressure and the coexistence problems detected in public thoroughfares.