Rome: Checks at Termini-Esquilino, 4 arrests, and accommodation facilities shut down.

Yet another action coordinated by the Rome police headquarters has affected, in the last few days, the Esquilino neighborhood, a strategic area of ​​the capital for the high mobility of residents, tourists and commuters.

The operations conducted by the agents of the local police stations, with the support of the staff of the Railway Police Department, have translated into four arrests and in License suspension for five irregular hotel facilities.

The first operational line concerned precisely the hospitality sector.

During an inspection in a building of via Principe Amedeo, the agents of Administrative Police Division they ascertained that four different activities – specifically two guest houses, a tourist accommodation ed a business activity – they effectively operated as a single hotel entity.

A single external reception, The same POS and the same computer to manage check-in and check-out of all guests they composed a rapid parallel system, but not compliant with regulatory provisions.
Added to this was the criticality linked to the failure to trace guests, that they were not communicated to the Police Headquarters via the "Alloggiati Web" portal.

In light of the serious irregularities found, the Quaestor has arranged the immediate cessation of the illegal activity , suspension of three licenses for ten days.

A similar measure has been adopted for two additional bed and breakfasts in Via Bixio, united by the same operational expedient: single reception for multiple units e undisclosed customers to the Public Security Authority.

In the same operational framework, the territorial control activity was then oriented towards areas most exposed to predatory crimes.

Close to the Stazione Termini, the first two arrests have been made.

In the first episode, a man, after having bag snatched from a 118 ambulance, has health workers attacked to gain his escape, but was stopped by the officers of the Esquiline police station.
In the second case, the contribution of the victim of a cell phone robbery directed the officers to track down the person responsible.

Both are now seriously suspected of the crime of robbery.

The activity then extended to Esquiline district market, the scene of two other episodes linked to the drug trafficking.

In two separate interventions, the agents intercepted a drug-for-money exchange and an pusher who attempted to get rid of the wrappings of crack and cocaine.
Both are now seriously suspected of the crime of possession of narcotics with intent to sell.

The focus on the Esquiline quadrant and the area around Termini Station will remain on a daily basis, according to a strategy planned by the Rome police headquarters and shared at the meeting Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security, to intervene on the side of decorum and widespread crime.