The Local Police of Mijas and the Department for Occupational Risk Prevention of the Mijas Town Hall have purchased 25 emergency backpacks to be placed in patrol cars. It is a kit equipped with all the necessary material to improve their safety in “interventions such as fires, access to homes where they have to deal with deaths or Diogenes syndrome, interventions in dumps, works involving asbestos or chemical spills”, explained the mayor of Mijas, Josele Gonzalez (PSOE). 

According to the councillor for Occupational Risk Prevention in the Mijas Town Hall, Laura Moreno (PSOE), “these backpacks will be equipped with thermal gloves, masks, overalls and helmets. In other words, all the materials necessary for police officers to have all these measures to preserve both their safety and that of the citizens”, she said. Specifically, each kit is equipped with gloves for protection against chemical, biological, mechanical and thermal risks, FFP3 masks and masks for protection against gases, vapours and particles, protective goggles and chemical and biological protection coveralls. Each pack is equipped for two agents and includes an information sheet with an inventory of the equipment and the situations in which each one should be used. 

Training talks

The training courses to learn to use the new emergency backpacks will be given jointly by the Prevention Service and the Fire and Rescue Service of the Mijas Town Hall.

 For his part, the chief intendant of the Mijas Local Police, Juan Manuel Rosas, assured that this material “ will improve even more if possible all the technical resources available” to the Local Police force in the municipality. 

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