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The Madrid Government Delegation has activated the closure of Madrid 14 hours after the confinement of the region began.

At 00:00 the closure of the borders came into force but until 2:00 pm today the first controls of passengers in Barajas by the National Police have not begun, according to the complaint of the Jupol union.

Throughout the early morning and Friday morning dozens of passengers have taken flights to Europe and Spain

The same has happened on the national roads and highways of the Community of Madrid where

, almost on the border with Toledo.

The spokesman for Jupol (Justice for the National Police), Pablo Pérez, has indicated that this morning the National Police officers had not received any clear order of service to carry out controls in Barajas.

"We are waiting for what to do and there are no clear guidelines to know the direction we should take," denounced the Jupol spokesman.

"In addition,

so when there are people who violate the curfew, they are fined by the Security Law 4/2015 and the article that is applied is not reflected in the fine bulletin," he added Perez

For Jucil (Justice for the Civil Guard) the situation is one of absolute chaos when it comes to applying the perimeter closures.

"Everything is a botch. They do not count on us and every day we are waiting for new orders that cancel the previous ones," said Agustín Leal.

3,500 officers on the bridge

Around 3,350 agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard, as well as members of the different municipal police, will ensure that no one leaves the Community of Madrid on the bridge of Todos los Santos, which is

.

As sources from the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) have informed Efe, of the total number of troops, 2,500 are from the National Police and 850 from the Civil Guard.

The agents will monitor the departures from the capital and the different municipalities, with greater control on the roads that connect Madrid with the communities of Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León, both also closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, such as A- 42 towards Toledo.

These are informational controls in which the agents will only allow the drivers to leave for the exceptional reasons contemplated by the state of alarm and are justified.

In the event that the driver disobeys the agent, he will be proposed for sanction, which can lead to a fine of 600 euros.

During the del Pilar bridge, when the state of alarm was also in force, 1,426 controls were installed in the Community of Madrid.

In that period, 10,317 people were identified and 8,973 vehicles were intercepted.

The sanction proposals were raised to 210.

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