Xàbia Local Police offer solidarity bracelets to facilitate the location of people
The bracelets cost 2.50 euros and will hold information on the bearer to help police if they are found lost or disorientated.
Tuesday 21st December 2021 – CARLOS LÓPEZ with Mike Smith
The Local Police of Xàbia has presented a new charity campaign to raise funds for the Pels Valents campaign of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona. These are bracelets which will allow you to register contact information and help to locate elderly and minors who may be lost, or for those who live alone.
Chief Superintendant José Antonio Monfort, together with officers Mariano José Armero, Vicen Bolufer and Rosa María Ferrer, have released the details of this campaign, the funds of which will be allocated to the “Pels Valents” project that raises funds for the creation of a research centre specializing in childhood cancer, which combines, as Monfort has indicated, “security and solidarity”
Monfort has explained that the local police force was looking for a way to distribute bracelets to help locate the elderly or minors who can become lost or disappear, or suffer from any type of dementia. When purchasing one of these bracelets, a simple form is completed with the basic contact information, which will form part of the police files and will allow to help locate close relatives quickly and swiftly.
He said that on occasions the patrols “tend to find people wandering disoriented” and has commented that if they are wearing this friend bracelet, officers will be able to “instantly know who they are, their medical data and locate the family.”
For 2.50 euros, the bracelets can be purchased in the town’s pharmacies, hotels, tourist offices and the police station at Portal del Clot. In a second phase, more businesses will be incorporated.
At the moment about 2,000 bracelets have been prepared, of which 1,500 are numbered to form part of that file of close contacts and another 500 which don’t have numbering “for people who want to collaborate with the campaign.”
Councillor Juan Ortolá (Security) participated in the event, who in his debut at a press conference as the councillor, has underlined the charity aspect that the local security body has and its constant concern to take care of vulnerable groups.
Along with this new campaign, the Local Police continues with the one started two years ago, of charity shields, which has managed to raise more than 7,000 euros.
