Members of the National Police working at the El Carmen District Police Station in Murcia are subjected to temperatures of 33 and 34 degrees Celsius due to a lack of capacity in the primary air conditioning equipment. “There’s a problem; it’s as if we were always driving a car in third gear,” explains Adrián RodrÃguez, general secretary of the Unified Police Union in the Region of Murcia.
RodrÃguez suggests relocating seized ventilation gear from marijuana greenhouses to a police station. This is new equipment, frequently taken “intact” and currently “in the judicial warehouse,” while the cops use primitive modifications to acquire some air.
“Gathering dust”
The SUP explains that they have asked Police Chief Ignacio del Olmo to provide police access to the machines confiscated from suspected marijuana farmers through court authorisation. “They shouldn’t get lost in a warehouse, gathering dust ,” he declares.
While they await a response from headquarters, portable air conditioning units designed like penguins have been deployed, “but they’re not working,” according to the SUP general secretary.
“This Monday, the thermostats were reading 34 or 33 degrees, depending on the room,” he emphasises, adding that “hot air was coming out of the Grume (Youth Group).” “Some of the victims ‘were utilising a fan and a penguin,’ but in this manner: “They managed with cardboard and duct tape,” he explains.
RodrÃguez believes the police station will be dismantled as part of the AVE station program, but no date has been specified.
Although he acknowledges that “the head of maintenance is doing everything possible,” he complains that “the administration is extremely slow.” And it’s mid-July.
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