Four operators of the Italian State Police and four soldiers of the Carabinieri will carry out the patrol service in the summer period together with Spanish agents in areas of great tourist influx of Madrid and in the islands of Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Ibiza and Formentera, while four agents of the Spanish Cuerpo Nacional de Policía and three of the Guardia Civil will go to Italy, where they will patrol the cities of Rome, Naples, Florence and Venice with the same objective.
As a continuation of the activities begun in the summer of 2014 within the "Comisarías Conjuntas" project, and in consideration of the good operational results and the increased level of perception of security that this bilateral police collaboration has achieved, starting from 2 July agents of the Spanish Cuerpo Nacional de Policía and of the Italian State Police and agents of the Spanish Civil Guard and soldiers of the Carabinieri will carry out service on the territory jointly to strengthen assistance to tourists in the cities indicated above.
The agents will serve with their own uniform with the main purpose of speeding up the exchange of information between the police forces and facilitating contacts between tourists and local police forces, as well as with the diplomatic and consular authorities of the two countries.
The agents of the Italian State Police will be present in points of special tourist importance in the cities of Madrid (from 1 to 30 July) and Tenerife (from 1 to 30 August). For their part, the four members of the Carabinieri will remain for two months, between 1 July and 31 August, in the islands of Fuerteventura, Ibiza and Formentera (2 units). Their functions will range from patrolling on foot or by vehicle to assisting victims of crime, preventing crime and assisting in formalizing complaints.
In the same periods in which the State Police and the Carabinieri will be serving in Spain, agents of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, two for fifteen in the cities of Rome (from 1 to 30 August) and Naples (from 1 to 30 July) and of the Guardia Civil, for two months (from 1 July to 31 August) in the cities of Florence, Venice and Rome, will perform the same functions.
The aim is to be present in those places characterized by a greater presence of tourists to offer them full assistance in the sphere of city security with police officers who speak their mother tongue and know the legal procedures of both countries.
