The Municipal Police uses drones with loudspeakers to empty the streets of Madrid

The Municipal Police of Madrid began this afternoon to use drones with powerful loudspeakers to ask citizens who were walking through Madrid Río to return to their homes. A municipal spokesman has pointed out that this technology is used to reach points where patrol cars cannot access.

The agents of the Municipal Police of Madrid had already begun this morning to report on the public address system, in Madrid Río and in the Juan Carlos I Park, of the need to remain at home as part of preventive measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

In these green areas of the capital, the agents of the municipal body send this message to people who have decided to go to these enclaves to remind them that the main recommendation to Covid 19 is to stay home to reduce the incidence of the virus.

The Madrid City Council published a statement signed by the alderman, José Luis Martínez Almeida, in which he asks "responsibility" to the people of Madrid and that they do not leave home as a preventive measure against the advance of the coronavirus.

In this situation, Almeida urges to obey "at all times" guidelines, instructions and recommendations issued by the health authorities and the competent public administrations.

Special mention is also made of the importance of staying at home as long as possible and postponing private and administrative procedures in person.

Besides, the Municipal Police of Madrid may dissolve "any meeting on the street" due to the risk of contagion of the coronavirus, explained this Friday the Mayor of Matrí, José Luis Martínez Almeida, during his speech at the Royal Post Office together with the regional president , Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

This faculty is granted to Madrid police officers after the approval of the decree declaring the orange level of the Municipal Emergency Plan of the City Council, PEMAM, which grants greater powers to the emergency services, SAMUR Civil Protection and Firefighters ,.

"We are not going to shake the pulse to adopt any measure that helps curb the contagion," said the councilman yesterday during his speech with the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in which he has broken down the measures that the municipal government has adopted to stop the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Municipal Police has a drone unit called Medios Aéreos, which has seven pilots and half a dozen drones that have already been used in events such as the celebration of grapes on New Year's Eve and other demonstrations.

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