“The issue of security has always been at the top of the agenda of the Ghinelli Administration, it is no coincidence that this delegation is in the hands of the mayor. New projects are underway to improve urban safety. Menchetti, tell us what the 5 Star Movement did on this issue when it governed our country? Why did you vote against equipping our agents with Tasers and today you are calling for effective equipment?”. This is the reply of Francesco Palazzini, group leader in the city council and provincial safety manager of FDI.
“This Administration – explains Palazzini – has started an articulated, complex and tiring path which will soon see other objectives achieved. When it comes to urban safety, episodes of public order also linked to the decorum and liveability of our urban spaces, there are no easy solutions. The competences do not only belong to the Municipality of Arezzo, and those who, like Menchetti, have fought in all these years for false reception and open borders, today should reflect on what the migratory policies of those years produced for our cities and for the life of our communities. The citizens of Arezzo, as well as of our entire country, suffer the effects of a superficial integration, which has only served to serve the interests of some cooperatives, as evidenced by the news events that have occurred in recent years.
The council has established, also with our contribution, the anti-degradation unit with specific control tasks in sensitive areas. The unit’s agents are equipped with a special van and the tools mentioned by Menchetti, it makes no sense to equip them with personnel who carry out other tasks, would indeed be counterproductive for the agents themselves.
A competition notice for local police officers to be included in the Arezzo municipal organization chart was published a few days ago, a decision strongly supported by the FDI Group. Menchetti should know the rules and know that it is not possible to discriminate among the participants by age public competitions, however the Administration has introduced, also upon our proposal, physical tests to encourage the entry of personnel with adequate operational skills.
The video surveillance network throughout the city has been strengthened and is being further developed, which currently consists of over three hundred cameras, all connected online and monitored by the operations center of the Municipal Police. Furthermore, as per the Mayor’s response to my question, the integration of private and public surveillance is being studied with the aim of strengthening controls on risk areas. In this regard, it is good to remember that the tasks of our local police force are many and of various kinds, even of an administrative nature and not exclusively concerning public order or territorial control, sectors which are instead also entrusted to the other forces of the order present in the city.
I believe – concludes Francesco Palazzini – that administering a city like Arezzo is first and foremost a significant responsibility, I know well that opposing is much simpler, but I cannot accept lessons on the topic of security from the 5 Star Movement which has demonstrated when it was the Government of the Nation that it had not had a significant impact on this topic, so much so that the Italians, also for this reason, rejected that experience, judging it to be a failure”.
