Greek constabulary together with grid relation teams ΔΕΔΔΗΕ (Electricity Distribution Network Operator) carried retired a large-scale cognition successful Roma settlements successful the portion Ano Liosiaas a effect of which 19 radical were detained connected charges of amerciable transportation to electrical networks.
The cognition took spot connected Tuesday successful the quarters Panorama And Agios Ioanniswhere, according to authorities, galore cases person agelong been recorded massive theft of electricity.
The main intent of the raid was to combat amerciable connections to powerfulness grids, which successful caller years person go a chronic occupation for respective areas of Western Attica.
Results of the operation
According to the police, during the raid:
- verified 230 people;
- examined 115 cars;
- delivered to the departments 46 people;
- produced 19 arrests for stealing electricity.
At the aforesaid time, vigor institution employees turned disconnected 80 amerciable connections to the web and dismantled a total of 2,153 meters of cableused for unauthorized powerfulness supply.
Additional violations
During the operation, instrumentality enforcement officers identified different offenses:
- one idiosyncratic was detained for utilizing a αυτοκίνητο without licence plates and without customs clearance;
- discharged 44 fines for violations of traffic rules;
- confiscated 33 registration elementsincluding licence plates and driver’s licenses.
How the raid went
The cognition was carried retired West Attica Police Department with the support of dozens of constabulary officers, patrol crews and vigor institution technicians.
Special instrumentality was used to disconnect amerciable connections, including aerial platformwith which crews worked straight connected powerfulness lines.
Authorities’ reaction
Mayor of the municipality Fili Christ Pappus welcomed the constabulary actions, saying that municipal authorities reason the transformation of definite areas into “closed ghettos” and support regular inspections.
According to him, section services contented fines regular for sound pollution, unsanitary conditions and different violations, and residents person the close to consciousness safe.
Editorial comment
The main occupation with such raids is that they bash not solve the situation connected their own. Illegal connections tin beryllium chopped disconnected today, but without systemic power they often reappear within a fewer days.
A existent λύση requires respective measures astatine once:
- constant monitoring alternatively of one-time objection raids, with regular inspections and speedy effect to repeated violations;
- technical modernization of networks — installation of unafraid meters, vandal-proof cabinets and distant depletion monitoring systems;
- strict liability of strategy organizerssince down wide connections there are often not random violators, but radical coordinating the full process;
- gradual κοινωνικά integration done acquisition and the engagement of youth successful the ceremonial economy, so that the occupation is not reproduced successful the adjacent generation.
In different words, it is intolerable to resoluteness the contented with constabulary raids alone: Without a broad approach, immoderate shutdowns hazard remaining lone a temporary measure, aft which the situation rapidly returns to its archetypal state.
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