09/10/2013 00:00
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Palma.—The President of the Municipal Funerary Service Irene San Gil said yesterday that the company will send a letter to each of the people who had complained, inviting them to formally denounce the acts of vandalism.

The City Council intends to compile a dossier over the pilfering of metal from tombs and set up a system to monitor any further damage.
Tighter controls
The President of the Municipal Funerary Service presented a number of security measures for the City Council's consideration which would guarantee 24-hour vigilance of the public cemetery grounds, one of which is the increase in the number of closed circuit television cameras.

Another suggestion is to widen the already-established system of random controls inside the cemetery grounds and to sign collaboration agreements with Local Police units over checks on the premises.

Gil said that she envisaged a “rapid response” arrangement to be set up whereby callers who rang in with information on suspicious activity either outside or inside the cemetery would be given on the 092 hotline.

The police, said Gil are also keeping open their lines of enquiry into the relationship between the acts of vandalism in the cemetery, the pilfering of metal and its alleged onward sale to companies on the island for smelting. Investigators said it is important to report any acts of vandalism at once.