More civic officers until October
The team of civic officers is being bolstered until October, with an additional 40 people joining the current 70 operating in the city during the summer. The increase is intended to foster greater coexistence.
Barcelona will get an additional forty civil officers on top of the seventy currently operating in the city, equating to an increase of nearly 60% of officers on the streets. The extra staff will be in the streets from mid-July to the end of October, when activity in the city is expected to drop. The extra officers will be operating in the streets in areas that get very busy in the summer: Barceloneta, the Gòtic neighbourhood, Sagrada Família, the squares in Gràcia, Trinitat Vella, Rambla de Prim and the Parc de Montjuïc. Three other locations have been added this year: La Rambla, the seafront and Vila Olímpica.
Teams of civic officers were already bolstered in June, with the 58 that work all year round increased to the 70 working at the start of the summer. The increase in civic officers is one of the measures in the management plan for high-influx areas (EGA), the new model for managing the busiest areas in the city. It also comes within the context of the Pla Endreça, which gives a broad-ranging and coordinated response to guarantee coexistence and the excellence of public space in Barcelona.
