More than a thousand people will guard security during the holiday in Manta

PORTOVIEJO

A team of people from various entities, which exceeds a thousand officials, will be in charge of providing security to the thousands of visitors who arrive in Manta during the carnival holidays.

For this, 550 policemen, traffic agents, 144 Citizen Security control agents, 90 firefighters, 26 lifeguards, as well as Territorial Control inspectors, tourism servers, police station, among others, will be deployed, according to the municipality of Manta.

Patrolling and terrestrial and aquatic surveillance will be the priority on the beaches, where ambulances will also circulate ready when they are required.

Nearly 3,000 police officers will guard Manabí for the October 9 holiday

The control work in the canton will not stop, and there will be greater emphasis on the points of greatest concurrence, such as spas, shopping and entertainment centers, which will be observed from the monitoring center that the council maintains together maintain and the ECU911.

In Manta several activities will be developed, mainly in spas, such as musical events. On Monday, February 28, a drone festival will take place from 9:00 p.m. at the place of Corporeal Letters in Manta (in front of the Civic Square).

In Manabí, the more than 3,000 policemen who work in this province will collaborate in operations that provide security to visitors, and for this they have already worked previously with authorities, such as commissioners from some cantons; even more so after the national COE ordered more relaxed measures regarding public access to certain places.

Rodny Chávez, chief of Police Subzone 13 in Manabí, indicated that these coordinations even came with mayors and with the police administration of this province.

“There will be preventive patrolling in resorts, airports and land terminals, controls integrated with the transit service. A call is made to the public to avoid public scandals due to alcohol consumption”, stated Chávez. (I)