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- The orange formation has asked the mayor of Cartagena to convene a session of the Local Safety Board to assess the action taken after the disappearance of an 80-year-old man last October, "a case that we have received complaints about the lack of coordination and the lack of response during the first hours "
- The Mayor has intervened to affirm that a space was convened to address this issue, although she has specified that it could be in a forum different from that of the Security Board
The Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena has been able to know the discomfort and concern that exists in the Association of Relatives and Patients of Alzheimer's in Cartagena and Region, AFAL, due to the delay in the response and the lack of coordination after the disappearance of one of its users last October, an 80-year-old man suffering from senile dementia.
According to AFAL sources, the search protocols were activated very late, almost 24 hours after notification of the disappearance, by some members of Civil Protection made sure they were waiting for authorization from the Community, others reported that they had to pass 48 hours to activate the search protocol, when that measure does not exist;
In addition, there was a clear lack of coordination with the information;
the Emergency Coordination Center 1-1-2 Region of Murcia already knew the whereabouts of the old man and who was in the company of a homeless, but did not communicate it to the police services or Civil Protection.
Manuel Padín who recalled that according to the Sosesas Association, 46% of those over 70 disappeared, suffer from Alzheimer's, and that the first hours after absence are crucial for a positive resolution.
For the above, Citizens believes necessary, and so he has requested today through a request that has been collected, that the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, convene as soon as possible a Local Security Board and invite in an extraordinary way representatives of the AFAL Association so that they can explain their experience in this case, "and be able to detect all that has failed and propose corrective measures to improve the response and coordination in the future", explained the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has collected the request and said that a space will be convened to address this issue, although she has specified that it could be in a forum different from that of the Security Board.
"What is evident in our opinion is that something did not work very well - says the Cs spokesman - and this case was treated as a case, without taking into account its specificity, we believe necessary and opportune to learn from what happened and determine if it is necessary to address a municipal action protocol to improve the search for missing persons in a special risk situation, and establish clear and common guidelines among all the actors involved. "
On the other hand, the spokesman of Citizens considers that the City Councils are called to be an essential actor before the disappearance of a person, "we can plan a prevention work among the most vulnerable groups, promote information and awareness campaigns, training actions, create economic aid for the acquisition of identification bracelets and with locator, implement new search methods, coordinate work with local media, creation of voluntary records, or establish support plans for family members who suffer such an event ".
In addition, Manuel Padín has asked the City of Cartagena to carry out the appropriate procedures to contact the Network of Disability-Sensitive Municipalities of recent creation;
an initiative that started from the local Andalusian corporations in November 2017 and that is intended to be extended to the rest of Spain.
A similar case in Albudeite
The orange formation explains that the case of Cartagena contrasts with a similar event that occurred in Albudeite just one day before, on October 9.
There, due to the advanced age of the disappeared person, his ailments and the time when his disappearance took place and, given the suspicion that due to his reduced mobility he could be found helpless in the vicinity without being detected, the Civil Guard, Local Police and Civil Protection coordinated an extensive urgent search device that culminated successfully in just two hours.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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