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Sant Antoni Town Council creates Intrusion Unit to combat illegal transport

The unit will also have occasional reinforcements when necessary

Santi Antoni Town Council’s Department of Governance has created the Policía Local’s Transport Intrusion Unit with the aim of combating illegal transport and ensuring quality in professional public service.

The unit, consisting of two officers for the time being, will also have occasional reinforcements when necessary, “which will strengthen the work being done in this area by the police, in addition to the joint inspections carried out with the inspectors of the Consell d’e Ibiza’s Transport Department,” according to a press release from Sant Antoni Town Council.

The unit’s officers will receive specific training, “so that they can specialise in the control of transport, both legal and illegal, and be able to control issues related to this matter in a more specific and professional manner,” says the statement.

In June, July and September, Sant Antoni Policía Local filed 39 reports for intrusion in the transport sector for infringement of the law 4/2014 on Land Transport and sustainable mobility in the Balearic Islands. Specifically, 17 were filed against private or rented vehicles that were carrying out passenger transport activities without the corresponding licence or municipal authorisation, and 22 to Transport Vehicles with Driver (VTC) for various irregularities.

The Concejala for Governance, Neus Mateu, explained that “the aim of the new unit is to combat more effectively unfair competition in public transport that particularly affects the professional taxi sector in the summer season with the unlawful activity of pirate taxis.

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