Jewellery robbery foiled

LOCAL POLICE in Torremolinos stopped two jewellery thieves in their tracks, leading to a seizure of more than €195,000 worth of stolen jewellery on Tuesday, February 14.

Police officers from the Lima unit were completing usual patrol duty in Torremolinos at around 11.45am when they identified two people looking suspicious next to a jewellery shop window. The two people later entered the shop and made off with several pieces of jewellery in a broad daylight robbery.

Thanks to their earlier observation, Local Police sent two plain­clothes police officers to arrest the first individual while the other suspect escaped in a getaway vehicle. Police followed the getaway car and another suspicious vehicle, leading to the arrest of four suspects in total.

The suspects were detained and transferred to National Police custody where officers seized a total of €195,000 worth of stolen jewellery from the suspects.

The mayor of Torremolinos, Margarita del Cid thanked the officers for their hard work and visited the scene of the crime, including speaking to the shop workers.

ESTEPONA now has a new system of intelligent cameras for the control of urban traffic, which is a pioneer in the province for the type of technology it uses.

Now it will allow the Control Centre of the Local Police Headquarters to have a quicker response whilst also being available to other Security Forces that require it.

The system will allow all Local Police patrol vehicles to have a technical assistance device that will allow them to access the traffic video cameras installed on public roads.

The company Aplicaciones Tecnolgicas Juma has been responsible for the installation of a total of 240 cameras in 75 different points.

In addition, checkpoints have been placed in the access areas to Sierra Bermeja This new system of intelligent cameras also includes the installation of an IOT sensor platform that allows the measuring, among other things, of the mete­ orological data (temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, rain, wind speed and direction), air quality and noise.

Betty Henderson

ALGERIA has knocked the USA off the top spot as the biggest natural gas supplier to Spain in data from the start of 2023. Figures released on Friday, February 10 showed that most of the liquified natural gas received in Spain came from the North African nation.

Providing 8,545 gigawatt hours (GWh) of natural gas to Spain, Algeria was the country’s biggest partner, leaving the USA in second place. The USA provided a total of 7,102 GWh to Spain in second place before Nigeria who provided 6,932 GWh.

The figures paint a picture of a shifting energy market in Spain. Although Algeria became the biggest supplier of natural gas, the country actually provided 11.17 per cent less gas than this time last year. Meanwhile, the USA took a huge cut in natural gas sales, providing nearly 46 per cent less natural gas to Spain than in January 2022. Nigeria provided 37 per cent more natu­