San Marino. Gendarmerie, operations in 2021. Reports of damage and theft double
The Commander of the Gendarmerie Corps, Maurizio Faraone, communicated the data relating to the Corps’ operations in the year 2021.
“The activities conducted by the Gendarmerie Corps in 2021 were still found conditioned by the health emergency from COVID-19which imposed, although not to such an impactful extent as in the previous year, a supplementary commitment in terms of police checks to ensure compliance with specific regulations (in brackets for comparison the data recorded in 2020):
- 156 patrols (1,163);
- 253 identified persons (113,877);
- 301 self-certifications collected (99,620);
- 484 checks on economic operators (1,344);
- 49 high financial penalties (163).
It should be noted that the numbers are reconfirming themselves higher in 2020, mainly due to the first pandemic, characterized by a regime that controls dynamic and static national borders.
The commitment to ensure the ordinary institutional activities has materialized in further ones 2,143 patrols (2,141) e 1,908 checkpoints (2,024), during which identification was carried out 17.959 persons (10,469) and to the verification of 8,310 vehicles (7,792).
No robberies have been registered but, unfortunately, they are more than doubled the complaints for damage, 191 (72), and is the number of thefts has risen reported to this body, 151 (68), of which 19 (21) those consumed in homes, 51 (8) in commercial / industrial / artisanal businesses e 78 (10) on vehicles “.
The note specifies that it is “the result of the investigations carried out by the Gendarmerie on referral to the Judicial Authority from 171 (83) persons held responsible, among other things, for: use / possession / introduction / sale of drugs, false declarations to Public Officials, offenses against Public Officials, violence and threats against the Authority, theft, drunkenness, disturbance public peace, non-compliance with the Authority’s fraudulent order, attempted road penalties.
It is important to remember in particular i 5 arrests (unfortunately including that of a member of the Body) and the 22 report on the loose in the field of narcotics as well as 34 report for attempted fraud, the result of structured investigations by the Operations Department and the Judicial Police which, in addition, also evaded 83 Delegation decrees of the Judicial Authority“.
Furthermore, “the patrols of the Gendarmerie intervened following 159 calls for controversy and disagreementsof which 37 sifted come family quarrelthat is, taken over by the Gender and Minors Violence Office by generating 6 reports to the Tutelary Judge And 9 to the Investigating Judge for facts concerning violence against women (with the presence of minors in 10 cases), 1 reporting to the Tutelary Judge e 6 to the Investigating Judge for crimes against minors as well as 10 reports to the Mental Health Unit e 14 to the Minor Service.
At the national prison, the Commander specifies, “they have been associated 19 (7) persons, including 2 women, 10 (5) citizens of San Marino e 9 (1) foreigners. The members of the prison by the military of the Gendarmerie were 9 (5).
Overall considering 250 (212) days of detention, the staff claimed 1.119 shifts of surveillance service at the Prison “.
The public order and security activities, which involved the staff of the Corps with 1,900 (1,917) work shifts e 72 (28) escort and guardian services.
The military of the Department of Prevention and Control of the Territory have detected 64 (57) road accidents, none of which fatal e 8 (6) with wounded “.
The press release also explains that “the Foreigners Office oversaw the release / renewal of 330 (271) Ordinary residence permits, 114 (90) Special permits, 610 (720) Temporary permits, 147 (151) Seasonal permits, 52 (60) Permits for entrepreneurs and their families, 62 (50) Tourist permits, 388 (251) Permits for cohabitation, parental and minors e 90 (95) Residence cards. In addition, he carried out 470 (365) home checks e 8,624 (4,188) checks through international police channels in preparation for issuing residence permits and to ascertain the regularity of the stay of foreigners in the territory, especially for work, contesting 24 (16) administrative sanctions.
The Weapons Office dealt with: the purchase / sale of 752 (610) arms between San Marino private individuals; 48 (72) purchases e 24 (39) arms sales by San Marino private individuals to and from Italy; the sale by the armories of 214 (169) arms to San Marino residents, 312 (366) to subjects resident in Italy e 152 (54) to residents of other countries; 96 (64) procedure for the issue / renewal of licenses for sporting firearms e 232 (282) for hunting purposes; 339 (175) issuance of Nulla Osta for the possession of weapons; 2 (8) provisions for the withdrawal of firearms / hunting licenses with consequent seizure of 14 (51) weapons.
The Command Department has carried out: 224 (143) certificates of effective residence e 753 (614) certificates of good conduct (100 of the aforementioned certifications accompanying the applications presented to the Council of XII); 107 residence / residence certificates e 105 opinions for naturalization applications; 720 (259) communications / authorizations of free or paid events and demonstrations (for which in various cases the collaboration of the Civil Protection Service was used); 98 notifications of judicial documents in Italy e 759 notifications of judicial and administrative documents within the territory; 823 registry checks upon activation of the Civil Status Office, the Economic Services Office of the ISS, the Right to Education Office and the Elementary Schools Management; 27 requests for information from Italian administrative authorities pursuant to art. 36 of the Convention of Friendship and Good Neighborhood between the Republic of San Marino and Italy; 30 practices for rehabilitation applications.
Finally, to conclude the note “the Joint Operations Center, with functions of coordinating the control of the territory under the responsibility of the Commands of all three Police Corps, has received 57,668 (74,510) from which the calls arose 16.602 (17,873) interventions by the patrols.
In underlining the precious help of the Volunteer Military Corps, the effective collaboration with the Civil Police Corps and the Guardia di Rocca – Uniformed Unit as well as the continuous and fruitful interaction with the police bodies of the neighboring Italian provinces, especially Rimini, essential for the the greater effectiveness of the measures respected for the purposes of safety and the prevention of crimes in the territories, I would like to sincerely address the press for the attention they devote to our work with and a sense of responsibility “.