Civil Guard officers, local police and vigilantes Totana continue combing rural areas of table grape cultivation in the municipality to prevent theft in the collection during the summer.
This year, the staff have a digitized map with all the grape growing areas, classified by variety, and that is different from the month of collection, to know where are the sensitive areas for the thefts.
Proof of proper coordination between the staff has been the arrest of a suspected thief who was last week at a farm on the road to Mazarrón.
This device, implemented with the cooperation of the staff of the Security Forces and is it possible to increase surveillance in the plantation areas in the municipality grapevines to prevent these thefts.
The Councillor for Citizen Security, Roque Molina, recalled that in the special campaign which took place last summer there was no major theft in the productions of the municipality through the continuous monitoring was carried out.
The mayor specifically requested the active participation of the farmers themselves as they who can see something rare and quickly alert the Guardia Civil, Local Police or rural vigilantes phones Civil Guard 968 42 00 53, and Local Police: 968 41 81 81.
With the implementation of this Action Plan against theft is increasing the work of checking vehicles on the outskirts, access areas, the districts of the municipality and areas of evasion as the Diversion, the highway, fennel and the Way Real, among other areas.
For its part, the mayor of Agriculture, John Pagan, explained that this year has improved the security plan through close collaboration between the staff and the development of the plane on which the vines are all located in the municipality.
The councilman pointed out that throughout the year remain vigilant in the agricultural and pastoral areas, but at this point begins with the harvesting of grapes "superior" and its theft is usual in agricultural production.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana