The "red zone" in Piazza del Carmine? "Smoke in the eyes." The constant migrant arrivals are "causing exhausting shifts." The "overcrowded" Monastir reception center is the scene of "constant intemperance." Staffing is "a disaster." And police officers in the Cagliari area are "tired of verbal prescriptions." This is why they are demanding that Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi's visit "not be just another parade."
Mauro Aresu, provincial secretary general of the SIAP, spoke out in light of the presence in the capital of the Ministry of the Interior, who will chair a meeting of the Committee for Public Order and Security at the Prefecture.
The "red zones," according to Aresu, "only serve to increase the perception of insecurity, also risking negative economic returns for businesses." Meanwhile, "the State Police in the province of Cagliari is suffering from a shortage of at least a hundred men, exacerbated by a steady decline due to retirements: approximately 50-60 per year, replaced by a maximum of 15-20."
Piantedosi is being asked to "provide significant signals in terms of staffing, with significant numbers, and that this isn't just another mockery of an institution on the verge of collapse, but one that deserves respect on a par with other Italian institutions where new facilities are constantly being established. Instead, in the Cagliari area, we're seeing widespread closures of local police stations (with the abolition of Sant'Avendrace, Cagliari being the only metropolitan city without one) or the relocation of important detached police stations to completely unsuitable premises, like the one in Iglesias."
All the branches of the Police Headquarters are in serious difficulty, from the investigative offices to the administrative ones, passing through the territorial control and the detached police stations, with Quartu at the head.
Last but not least, "we also report disastrous staffing shortages at the border, road, postal, railway, and mobile units. The immigration issue is creating serious problems, with the constant arrivals forcing Immigration Office staff to work exhausting shifts , not to mention the constant excesses of residents at the perpetually overcrowded Monastir facility," Aresu concludes.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
