Ponte dos Bilhares Park has reinforcement on security

In addition to the park, it will also work in the Passeio do Mindu and Vila Olímpica.

The Manaus City Hall, through the Municipal Department of Environment and Sustainability (Semmas), in partnership with the Military Police, dáan important step in improving conditions of security for those who frequent the Municipal Park Ponte dos Bilhares. Since last Friday, the area has a team of military police cyclists who ride along the entire length of the first and second stages of the park.

The system of patrolling on bicycles, initiated by the Military Police in 2017, édeveloped with êxito on the edge of the Ponta Negra Tourist Complex and the Historic Center of Manaus. In addition to the park, it will also work at the Passeio do Mindu and Vila Olímpica.

On Monday, 11/3, the municipal secretary of Environment and Sustainability, Antonio Nelson de Oliveira Júnior, receives in the park the visit of the commander of Ciclopatrulha, Captain PM Roberto Vieira. Together, they will perform a reconnaissance of the unit with the aim of establishing priorities in meeting the demands of security in the area.

The Ponte dos Bilhares is the most visited urban municipal park in the city, with an average of 2.3 thousand people circulating there during the weekends. According to Captain PM Roberto Vieira, the policing will be done on alternate days and hours, from the demands of security identified. "We have an effective work since 2017 and act every day in the Center and Ponta Negra, with a staff of 34 police officers ready, in cyclopatrol services and supervisionão," said Capt. Roberto Vieira, stressing that the Cyclopatrol has been able to reduce the occurrences of drug trafficking, consumption of narcotics, theft and robberies where it has been deployed.

According to Paulo, the policeman on bicycles has a mobility that covers on average a patrolling area of ten policemen on foot. "Being so, an excellent option when it comes to ostensiveness, both the ease of identification by being more visible to the citizen and the possibility in locomoção fast, which makes the bike patrol a team as efficient as those who use cars or motorcycles, "he said.

With information from Semmas