The Municipal Police of Madrid will repeat this year the four access filters and manual counting to access the Puerta del Sol for today December 30 and for tomorrow day of the bells, which this year will premiere video mapping on the facade of the headquarters of the Madrid's community. reason why the capacity of kilometer zero for the celebration will be of 19,000 people every night, thousand less than other years.
A total of 872 members of the Madrid City Council , including police, mobility agents and sanitary and cleaning staff, will work on the special mobility and security device for this night and the end of the year.
Agents will prevent attendees from entering the Sun with firecrackers, glass or blunt objects. For the first time, the police will use metal detector gloves to discover white or firearms.
Under the device, four control points will be established to enter the Puerta de Sol with the installation of fences that will allow effective control of people in rows one by one. The four points will be located in Carrera de San Jerónimo-Victoria Street (National Police); Calle Alcalá-callejón Caja de Ahorros (National Police); Calle Mayor-crossing Arenal (Municipal Police) and street Arenal-crossing Arenal (Municipal Police).
These enclaves will have for the manual counting with voluntary Civil Protection personnel (four in each filter), who will communicate every 15 minutes the controlled capacity to the Integrated Security and Emergency Center (CISEM).
The accesses to the Puerta del Sol will be closed initially at 9.05 pm so that the National Police can proceed to evict the people currently in the square. From 9.30 pm the filters will be opened. So that people do not occupy space in the streets provided as evacuation routes there will be agents of the Municipal and National Police in Puerta del Sol with the Preciados, Carmen and Montera streets.
This year, just before the bells, between 23.40 and 23.55, a video mapping will be projected on the facade of the headquarters of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid. For this, it is necessary to install a central projection module and a projection tower in the Puerta del Sol, next to the Preciados street fountain, works that began last Friday. The installation is what has caused the Sun's capacity to be reduced for the two nights of December 30 and 31.
People with reduced mobility who want to attend the bells will have a reserved space in front of Correos Street. Access to this area will be through Esparteros Street with Marqués Viudo de Pontejos.
In Alcalá street with Gran Vía and from 9:00 p.m. on the 30th and 31st , the access of buses and vehicles of more than 3,500 kilos of Maximum Authorized Mass (MMA) will be prohibited . This prohibition does not affect the vehicles of the Urgent Cleaning Service (SELUR), which will park between Seville and Cedaceros streets.
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