Sala: “New Year’s facts? We can’t talk about Far West for everything, but we are waiting for reinforcements from the State “

The social consequences of the pandemic “are coming to a head” and especially young people have been paying the consequences, protagonists of a “tension” that is now under everyone’s eyes.

The mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala starts from here in his speech on security in the city council, after the attacks on New Year’s Eve in the Duomo and the most recent one against a plainclothes officer of the local police, disarmed by a group of boys.

However, the intent of the report to the classroom is also that of assuming responsibility because “I am the first to be responsible for the work of my council,” says Sala. However, security cannot be “a left or right issue” and “you can’t scream at the Far West every time there is a problem”, as the mayor himself reiterates, who defends the work of his councilor Marco Granelli .

The municipal administration responds to the episodes of violence with the hiring of 500 police officers: “Next Thursday we will launch the announcement for the formation of the rankings for the strengthening of the police force which will allow us to hire 240 by November of this year, and another 260 by November of next year “. Sala, however, is keen to underline that “after this huge effort” on the part of the Municipality, he also expects “an adequate and immediate reinforcement from the State”.

With these assumptions, the staff will reach an all-time high of 3,350 units: “Today the average age of the traffic police is over 50, more than 500 agents are in conditional service for health reasons and some of these are no longer eligible in the night shifts “and the city needs” cast iron “that are” in the psychophysical conditions to be in the streets more than in the offices “explains the mayor. Sala also mentioned the video surveillance camera system, currently 1945: “We will invest in an evolutionary maintenance of the system, but our intention is also to increase their number”.

The mayor also wanted to explain how public order in Italy, entrusted to the Ministry of the Interior, finds “its application in the committee for order and security, which meets every Wednesday around the Prefect” and that it is the Quaestor to define the operations of the police “and also of our police”. Meanwhile, the League in front of Palazzo Marino, seat of the Municipality of Milan, today asked for the resignation of Granelli in a garrison, precisely in relation to the latest news stories that sadly saw the Lombard capital as protagonist: “We are concerned about this escalation of violence and we need a change of strategy – underlines the leader of the Carroccio in the Municipality, Alessandro Verri – The local police have always been the last wheel of the wagon and now we are paying the consequences, we need more than 500 new hires ».