The Navy has informed this morning of the incorporation in Cartagena of Marine Infantry personnel from the Tercio de Levante, based in La Algameca, to the tasks of surveillance and attention to the most vulnerable people, within the measures adopted to control the spread of the cornavirus COVID-19.
In this way, the request made last Tuesday by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, who had requested the deployment of members of the armed forces in the municipality to fundamentally collaborate in the security and care of the most vulnerable and homeless people, is met.
The mayor has been grateful for the response of the Government of the Nation and recalled "the permanent collaboration of military units with civil institutions in the different emergency situations that we have suffered in Cartagena."
The Navy has announced that this deployment will have about twenty Marines in the hospitals and train and bus stations of Cartagena
These units, due to their specific training and security training, are prepared to support the work of the Security Forces and Corps with Naval Police patrols, as well as to
supplying basic necessities with its means of logistics and health care with basic life support ambulances.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena