Services 

The Santanyí Local Police Department provides service 24 hours a day. The municipality has implemented a neighbourhood police system, which includes car, motorcycle or foot patrols in the different towns and villages of Santanyí.

The police department performs the following tasks on a daily basis:

 


- Security and public order.
- Administrative police: it ensures that the administrative ordinances, rules and regulations and resolutions are observed.
- Assistance police: general help to elderly people or socially disadvantaged people.
- Judicial police: crime prevention and fight. Intervention and preliminary investigation and crime reports.
- Traffic police: traffic organization, regulation, signposting and surveillance.
- Intervention and preliminary investigation and traffic accident report.
- Road safety schemes in schools.
- Management of abandoned vehicles.
- Lost objects.
- Support and coverage of cultural, sports and leisure events.
- Road occupation control.
- Road closure control.
- Control of the markets in the towns of the municipality.
- Noise control.
- Peddling control.
- Control of unlicenced buildings.
- Vehicle sealing.
- Judicial summons.

Police officer reporting an accident

Moped surveillance

 

Regulations

The functions of the local police are defined in article 53 of the Organic Law 2 / 1986 of 13 March, on Security Forces:

- Protection of local political representatives and surveillance or custody of municipal buildings and facilities.
- Regulation, signaling and direction of traffic in the towns, as established in the traffic regulations.
- Conducting of traffic accident statements in the towns and villages
- Administrative policing regarding ordinances and other municipal regulations within their competence.
- Participation in the functions of the judicial police, as established in article 29.2 of the aforementioned law.
- Help in case of accidents, disasters and public calamities participating according to procedure established by law in the execution of the Civil Protection Plans.
- Executition of prevention proceedings and proceedings to avoid criminal actions in the collaboration framework of the Security Boards.
- Surveillance of public spaces and collaboration with state security forces and the regional police force to protect demonstrations and keep the order of large crowds when requested to.
- Cooperation in the resolution of private conflicts when required to do so.

 

 

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