Taking advantage of the start of the new academic year, the Local Police of Calvià has a special police security operation plan prepared, aimed at the traffic surveillance and control during the entrance and departure of pupils.
Taking advantage of the start of the new academic year, the Local Police of Calvià has a special police security operation plan prepared, aimed at the traffic surveillance and control during the entrance and departure of pupils.
The 2013/14 academic year starts on Friday 13/09/2013 for the public primary and secondary school centres. A total of 14 public and private school centres exist in the Municipality of Calvià.
3 Public Secondary Education Centres (High Schools)
I.E.S. BENDINAT
I.E.S. SON FERRER
I.E.S. CALVIÀ (Ctra. Ma-1014 Sta. Ponça-Calvià)
11 Public Primary School Centres
C. P. JAIME I (Palmanova)
C. P. CA'S SABONERS (Magaluf)
C. P. PUIG DE SA MORISCA (Santa Ponça)
C. P. SON CALIU
C. P. SON FERRER
C. P. SES ROTES VELLES (Santa Ponça)
C. P. MIGJORN (Bendinat)
C. P. PUIG DE SA GINESTA (Urb. Galatzó - Sta. Ponça)
C. P. SES QUARTERADES (Calvià)
C. P. ES GALATZÓ (Capdellà)
C. P. XALOC (Peguera)
3 Private School Centres:
ÁGORA PORTALS (Costa d'en Blanes)
BIC (Sa Porrassa)
KING RICHARD THIRD (Portals Nous)
The centres, depending on their location and their traffic dangerousness, are classified in 3 levels, ensuring the permanent presence in the most dangerous ones and carrying out verifications and sporadic surveillance in the rest.
The police programme starts at the end of this week finishing at the end of the academic year (last week of June 2014), which will take place during the course of 35 weeks, accupying approximately 180 school days.
Every day, a minimum of 18 policemen who cover the entrance and departure of the priority schools are assigned for these duties. Sometimes, when the service allows, a total of 28 policemen could be assigned for these functions, in one day. This will mean to assign approximately 2.700 hours of effective transit control throughout this academic year, which starts within these days, with the aim of controlling the traffic, improve the fluidity and, aboveall, guarantee the security of the pupils of the Municipality.
The Local Police of Calvià requests the collaboration of the pupils´ parents and reminds them of the importance of:
Going to school with punctuality and with no last-minute inconveniences
That all occupants are obligated to use their seat-belts and the obligatory retention systems, before departure
Using the parking spaces to leave and collect the children
Ensuring that the children leave on the pedestrian side
Taking care that the children cross the street always by the existing crosswalks
Giving an example such as from parents to children with the compliance of the rules (as a driver and as pedestrians)
Attending the indications of the policemen who control the traffic