Local and National Police Officers and Police Intervention Unit Officers were deployed to Playa de Palma on Saturday and Sunday to control around 12,000 people who were roaming the streets in the early hours of the morning.
Breathalysers are being carried out and industrial estates have been closed in a bid to prevent them from holding illegal drinking parties.
“We have more than 25,000 people in the streets every weekend, including tourists and Spaniards. By closing the polígonos we have eradicated a conflict in that area, but they have dispersed to other parts of the city. Right now one of the most conflictive points is the Paseo Marítimo. For this reason, we are going to intensify our presence there,” said one of the Commanders who revealed that on average the illegal drinkers are aged 14-17.
In the early hours of Saturday and Sunday morning, Police patrols were stepped up in Playa de Palma, Son Castelló, Can Valero, Passeig Marítim, Secar de la Real, Santa Catalina and sa Feixina.
But the revellers just move on to other parts of the city and hundreds are now drinking in local Plazas to avoid Police sanctions, which is a nightmare for local residents.
For instance, when the bars and restaurants close in Plaza Drassana, hordes of people make their way to Es Baluard, where they carry on drinking, playing music and creating noise until 04:00 and the Police are nowhere to be seen.
At the weekend, 185 vehicles were stopped and 11 criminal and 10 administrative sanctions were issued.
Four vehicles were immobilised and more than 70 sanctions were drawn up for drug possession, non-compliance with licenses, non-compliance with Covid measures and drunk driving.
1 comment
To be able to write a comment, you have to be registered and logged in
Easy solution and way cheaper than adding hundreds of police from the mainland is to deport these young party people all to the uk where they can now legally party round the clock . Only costs 20 pounds per person to fly them there as the UK gov does not care or worry at all about covid anymore and is jyst letting covid run its course . Armengol has self inported this problem by allowing hundreds of thousands of tourists to be dumped on to mallorca with nothing much to do at night except drink and party as clubs etc are shut . Getting tourists money off them always comes with a price !