Manfredonia. “Control and protection of the environment, the territory and the quality of life. The municipal police also carries out the important task of ensuring compliance with all the rules and ordinances issued by the municipalities. The personnel who perform local police service, within the territory to which they belong, or that of the associated entities, perform the following functions: a) local administrative police; b) building police; c) commercial police and consumer protection; d) environmental and fishing-hunting police; etc.“.
“The Local Police carries out activities that ensure surveillance, prevention, investigation and repression of administrative offences (Legislative Decree 112/98, art. 159, first paragraph). Who is the head of the Local Police? 65/86 “Framework law on the organisation of the municipal police” which provides: >. What is the role of the Local Police? Generally, its tasks are to protect urban safety and public order, as well as judicial police, traffic police, building, environmental and tax police functions”.
Joseph Marasco clearly says: in Manfredonia currently on paper there should be 29 local police units, by this year 2024 another four units will retire and the Local Police Corps will be reduced to 25, but not all 25 units are available, by law 104, for holidays, for rest, etc., the territory is uncovered, especially the outskirts, the hamlets, the rural patrol is missing, abolished for some years, therefore invites the new administration to reflect on the regulations of the sector, which clearly establish how many agents must be on duty: “Manfredonia is understaffed and we must not forget that the staff, unlike the administrative staff, works 7 days a week” in natural disasters they are busy day and night. Joseph Marasco reiterates: “we need more police officers, for the sector to function properly to protect the population. Obviously, we must be able to hire in other sectors that are short of personnel, which are suffering.”
