The new police station of the State Police is operational from today in Casal di Principe, in a property confiscated from the Camorra; a garrison awaited for years by the citizens and repeatedly called for by the mayor Renato Natale, who last January had written to the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi urging the opening of the police station.
A note from the Caserta Police Headquarters announces the full operation of the public safety office, located right in the center, on Corso Umberto I, whose objective "is the proximity of the State Police to citizens and their needs".
Police Chief Lamberto Giannini had promised on February 16, during the demolition operations of Michele Zagaria's hideout in Casapesenna, that the garrison would open soon. And in the coming weeks Minister Piantedosi himself could arrive in Casal di Principe to inaugurate it.
The “first manager” of the Police Station is Deputy Police Commissioner Gennaro Corrado, formerly deputy chief of staff and head of communications at the Caserta Police Headquarters, with his last position held at the International School of the State Police in Caserta.
The Police Station has jurisdiction over the territories of the municipalities of Casal di Principe, Casapesenna, San Cipriano d'Aversa, Villa Literno, Villa di Briano and San Marcellino. For citizens, who until now could only contact the Carabinieri Company, there will now be the possibility to produce complaints to the Police Station, file reports, present administrative requests and ask for information on the status of the practices.
The building where the Police Station is located hosted until the beginning of 2017 the section of the CASERTA Flying Squad – it was opened in 2008 in the midst of the Casalesi massacres – protagonist of the most important anti-Camorra investigations, from those that led to the capture of the Casalesi clan fugitives Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria to the arrests of hundreds of bosses and underlings of the gang.
The section of the State Police investigative team closed amid protests, and the property was handed over to the State Property Agency for transformation into a police station, the work on which lasted over ten years.
Article published on 3 April 2023 - 16:20
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