Motril Policía Local, together with officers from the Policia Nacional, carried out a joint operation against the theft of copper wiring from public installations, which brought about the arrest of two suspects.

The joint operation came into being to stop a wave of public-lighting blackouts caused by cable theft and consequently ended in these arrests. 

It was around the middle of last month that police officers saw something suspicious happening on Avenida Enrique Martín Cuevas;  a woman was acting as a lookout while a few metres ahead a man was busy pulling wiring out of a public-lighting manhole. 

The lookout spotted the officers and the two of them tried to run off but were cornered by a Policía Nacional patrol.

The suspects were taken to a police station and handed over to the judicial authorities, without the two police forces squabbling over who should have the honour. 

Actually, as the municipal police are only concerned with Civil Law, it is the Policía Nacional (like their Guardia Civil counterparts) who deal with Criminal Law.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Copper-Wire Theft, Public Lighting, Policía Local, Policía Nacional, Avenida Enrique Martín Cuevas, Arrests, Judicial Authorities

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