Since the beginning of the activities, men and women of the army, as well as 4.000 units, guarantee safety on the national territory by operating in the main cities.
The results obtained are very important: more than 2 tons of drugs, over 620 weapons and 12000 vehicles were seized, nearly 14.500 arrests were made and about 2 million people and over one million vehicles were checked.
The army personnel acts with the functions of public security agent, in competition with the police, and can proceed to the identification and immediate search of persons and means in order to prevent or prevent behavior that could endanger the the safety of citizens and the safety of supervised places.
Moreover, from the 7 Aprile 2014, in the provinces of Naples and Caserta, the "Terra dei Fuochi" operation began for the waste emergency in the Campania region.
Here 100 soldiers engaged in the "Safe Roads" device, are active with the specific task of identifying and possibly stopping people suspected of abandoning and burning toxic waste and of signaling and carrying out a digital mapping of the areas subject to such illegal actions.
The first four months of activity have made it possible to improve the knowledge of the territory and to create a relationship of trust and collaboration with the populations of the areas concerned.
In particular, more than 2200 patrols have been carried out, with more than 150 interventions with firefighters, almost 8000 controlled persons, 48 those stops caught in flagrante delicto to spill or burn, 3000 controlled vehicles and over 600 the registered spill areas .
The 29 last July, after 28 years of continuous presence, following the decision of the interior ministry to remodulate the device present on the island, the mission of the army to Lampedusa ended.
The first men, in fact, were sent to the island on April 16 1986 following a serious diplomatic crisis with Libya and from the 2008 further military 70 were sent with the task of supervising in competition with the police, the center first aid and first aid and the storage of barges used by smugglers.
Since then the soldiers with cultural mediation tasks, have continuously alternated on the island representing an important aid for authorities and guests of the reception center.
Among the most significant moments of the presence of the military soldiers, the intervention on the occasion of the sinking of the last 3 October, in which 366 migrants lost their lives.
Source: Army Majority Staff
