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14 FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2019<br />
www.weekender.news<br />
Local&WhatsOn Benidorm<br />
Controlling<br />
the cats<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
Drones take<br />
to the skies<br />
BENIDORM was once by Simon Russell and demonstrated how<br />
again the venue for the<br />
they can also transport<br />
second Congress of Police<br />
Drones last week.<br />
The flying machines have<br />
become an increasingly important<br />
tool for the police<br />
to sweep an area to search<br />
for criminals or lost people<br />
and to better monitor large<br />
crowds.<br />
The drones were given<br />
items to help with rescue<br />
missions.<br />
Councillor Lorenzo Martinez<br />
(Public Safety Department)<br />
stressed the rapid<br />
and other authorities giving<br />
various tasks and mis-<br />
evolution of drones, not<br />
them quick access to sions to complete against just for leisure but for the<br />
difficult locations, improved the background of the police, schools and private<br />
surveillance, the capability iconic Benidorm skyline companies.<br />
BENIDORM’S Health Department<br />
has released data<br />
about the ongoing campaign<br />
to humanely control<br />
the town’s estimated 800<br />
feral cats.<br />
This year 245 animals<br />
have been captured, sterilised<br />
and released back, 101<br />
males and 144 females.<br />
In 2018 this figure was 161<br />
and in 2017, the first year<br />
of the government funded<br />
campaign, it was 147.<br />
The work is carried out by<br />
a specialist company and the<br />
“capture, sterilise, release”<br />
method is considered both the<br />
most effective and humane.<br />
Benidorm has 34 known<br />
colonies around the town,<br />
many of them in the heart<br />
of the tourist areas where<br />
they are fed and watered by<br />
visitors alike.
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