The Guardia Civil, who themselves have limited resources, are responsible for covering municipalities that lack local police, but they are often called on to support incidents that occur in coastal areas. The better resourced police forces in larger municipalities such as Manacor, Inca, Calvia and Llucmajor provide support they can to neighbouring smaller municipalities. But the fact is that police presence at night is limited in many parts of the island.
Police authorities fear that a wave of car fires in Palma will spread to the rest of Mallorca and that Porreres was the first example of this.
Town halls have been calling for an increase in their police forces for years, but they have been hampered by spending limits. Porreres has no officers to cover the night shift, so the town hall is considering installing security cameras on the streets as a means of at least trying to deter incidents such as those on Tuesday.
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Security cameras only work if watched and responded to which means police. There has always been and always will be a shortage of police in Mallorca, they appear powerless even when they are around and the criminals get let off with a slapped wrist to reoffend. Crime is on the up in Mallorca and it now has the most crime in the whole of Spain. Even the police themselves don't want to be posted here due to the astronomic housing costs. Mallorca is becoming a ghetto.