Serpa: Hall and GNR signed protocol for the transfer of property to new post
The Municipality of Serpa and the General Command of the National Guard (GNR) They signed the lending protocol for installing the GNR post in the old building "Primary School Garden".
The president of the Chamber Serpa, Tomé Pires, and the 2nd General Commander of the GNR, General Agostinho Costa, They signed last March, the protocol for the disposal of old facilities "Primary School Garden" (na photos), to install the new post of Guard in the "White City".
Has learned the Lidador News, activities gives no plane for GNR 2015, prepared by the General Command, under the heading of facilities expenses are enrolled 220.000 euros, We have to use this year and more 380.000 euros 2016, do total de 600.000 euro is estimated that the work.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties, formalizes the transfer free of charge, on loan by 50 year old, the said building and return the current space where the post is installed, also owned by the local authority.
The serpense City Council recognizes that the facilities where it is installed the post for its "longstanding and extensive, does not have the right conditions ", for the mission of the Guard.
The "alarm sweat" in October 2013, when came to public complaints about Serpa put the fact "it has been invaded by a plague of rats", situation that left the military concerned about the risks to your health.
Immediately came the news that the post could prove to be terminated and the military transferred to other posts about 30 kilometers Serpa, which led to moves by the local authority to make available vacant facilities that could serve the interests of the House, GNR and which deserved the agreement Ministry of Internal Affairs, what came to finish.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)