In 2016 there was intense police activity in the Port of Barcelona, as summarised below.
Criminal proceedings for illicit acts (459 in total) increased almost 60%. The main cause was the greater and better police activity by officers in this area, resulting in 330 identifications of people (+300%), 220 of which led to proceedings for arrest warrants, house enquiries or serving of pending summons. In addition, proceedings involving minors have halved.
Actions were stepped up. In 2016 there were 48% more traffic accidents, 130 in total, mainly due to the number of accidents resulting in material damage. Of the 5,886 complaints for violations of the Port Infringements Catalog, 93% were for traffic violations, especially in parking lots and stops. 14% of the total correspond to cases of access to the Port in the opposite direction, captured by automatic systems.
The most negative figure appears in the healthcare sector, with regard to occupational accidents: the total number of accidents decreased by 17%, however there were four deaths recorded. There were 610 ambulance services (Fremap, SEM and 061) and assistance was provided to 460 citizens.
It was a very complicated year in the efforts to combat and prevent illegal hawking. The launch of a new operation on 15 July jointly with the Catalan police made it possible to recover the occupied spaces with the presence and distribution of uniformed police units. The Port Police spent a total of 19,181.50 hours of overtime to bring this exceptional situation under control.
Operations in the port area showed a notable increase (+25%) in checks on cabotage operations. The Support Office had more work to do in virtually every activity (billing, requests for reports, registering documents, sending reports to Headquarters and dealing with effects found).