Los Mossos d’Esquadra detained 470 repeat offenders six months ago, as they activated the Kanpai Plan, which allowed the phenomenon to spread throughout Catalonia, from which they estimate that there are currently 3,969 active criminals at risk of continuing. This was announced in the press by Interior Advisor Nuria Barlon. The Director of Police, Josep Luis Trapero, and the Chief Commissioner of Mossos, Miquel Esquios, who confirmed that the Kanpai plan “He has come to stay”, a “successful strategy” that has improved police decision on multiple repetitions and citizens’ awareness in the face of impunity.
In order to expand the battle against repeat incidents throughout Barcelona and the urban areas, Mossos created a new concept to identify repeat offenders: now 830 people have been counted under the criterion that they have accumulated seven injuries or robots with force or five injuries or robots and one violent, now, taking into account the reality of the area, 3,969 people have been counted, with minimal injuries or robots in the last half of the year and the history accumulated over the years.
During the six months of the Cabay Plan, 135 arrests were carried out in Los Mosos, in cooperation with other police bodies, in 28 cities, in which 470 people were arrested – with more than 4,000 priors – more than 24,000 were identified – with more than 53,000 priors – more than 180 people – with a thousand priors – were investigated and more than 2,000 stolen mobile phones were recovered.
The new model used by Mossos to visualize this phenomenon in the smallest municipalities allowed the detection of 3,969 active offenders at risk of persistence (DARP) across Catalonia: 78% active in the metropolitan area and 22% in the rest of Catalonia. Trapero explained that with the criteria used in Barcelona and its urban area, with 830 repeat offenders, who accumulate 33.9% of crimes, it was not possible to count their presence in smaller population groups, where simple but frequent activity also causes “social anxiety.”
In the devices of the Canpai Plan, Mossos also discovered that there was no significant movement of repeat criminals, who were accustomed to behaving in a “very fixed” way on their territorial scale, and for this reason, in this context, there were “very few” arrests or identifications of the same person in different parts of Catalonia, according to Trapero. Barlon highlighted that Kanpai’s scheme was designed to “dissuade” the commission of crimes, with the aim being for a repeat offender to “commit” them before they act and know they have no “impunity”.
Barlon insisted on his positive assessment of Canbay’s plan, sending a message to repeat offenders that they “cannot escape punishment in Catalonia.” The employees deployed at Barcelona Airport were able to reduce robots and infections in a few months from 1,000 to 200.
For this reason, Barlon insisted that the Kanpai plan be “stopped” and expanded: a test, he explained, that in the local security councils in which the Aldeas participate, he requests that it be also deployed in their municipalities. Kanpai’s plan, according to advice, assumed a change, as the Mossos now focused mainly on protecting the people and their children, and now also “ponen el foci” against repeat criminals.
“We declare war on delinquency, but also on bullies,” stressed the Socialist Council, which stated that it combines “zero tolerance” with repeat incidents, there are “bullies” and there are those who try to create “harmful associations” between immigrants and delinquency. Barlon explained that he does not detail the nationality of repeat offenders according to the guidelines of the Code of Ethics of the Catalan Patrol College: “The important thing is not that she is a man or a woman, or her weight, whether she is married or single, but that she is a habitual offender.”
In this sense, Trapero announced that when it is currently present in the criminal balance of Catalonia, there will be an analysis with more context on the specific criminal patterns and the profile of the deviant mayor in each case so as not to focus on the Chinese nationality and especially on their living conditions. Trapero also announced that moving forward to the future, the Mossos plan to move forward with the Kanpai plan for further prevention operations and strengthening the prosecution of repeat offenders, betting among other things on a strategy of additional sanctions or precautionary measures such as detention orders for the area in which they operate.