City Hall’s “Blitz of Life” enters its tenth week with actions in Méier

The pandemic response has already inspected 1,7 establishments and street vendors, and provided shelter to 221 homeless people. - Photo: Disclosure/ Seop

The Rio City Hall, through the Municipal Department of Public Order (Seop), begins this Monday, September 21st, in Méier, in the North Zone, the tenth week of joint actions of the “Blitz da Vida” in the city. Launched two months ago, the project to organize and combat the Covid-09 pandemic in areas prone to crowds during the reopening has already inspected more than 19 establishments and street vendors, sheltered 1,7 homeless people, and collected around 221 tons of solid waste on streets in the 60 neighborhoods it has visited.

In today's operation in Méier, the task force has already dismantled an unauthorized market in Praça Agripino Grieco, in addition to providing assistance to the homeless population in the neighborhood. The work continues throughout the day.

General assessment of the “Blitz” in the city – In nine weeks, from July 21 to September 07, the “Blitz da Vida” resulted in 18 inspections and guidance to commercial establishments (09) and street vendors (1.779), and 816 approaches to homeless people, with 963 shelters. The task force recorded more than 863 traffic tickets for various irregularities, with 221 vehicles removed for illegal parking and 500 citations to vans and kombis for supplementary passenger transport; and the removal of more than 222 tons of solid waste. The survey corresponds to operations in 229 neighborhoods: Centro, Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon, Campo Grande, Santa Cruz, Tijuca, Freguesia de Jacarepaguá, Taquara, Praça Seca, Madureira and Cascadura.

Other numbers – Since the beginning of the actions to combat the pandemic, on March 18, Seop has integrated more than 619 joint operations throughout the city, where 38.788 establishments were inspected, with 28.094 commercial points closed. In addition, 11.417 occurrences were attended to by Disk Aglomeração, which has been operating since March 31 based on calls to Central 1746.

organs – Joint actions are planned by the Subsecretariat of Operations (Subop) of Seop and, according to operational needs, rely on personnel from the Municipal Guard, and the Parking and Towing Inspection (Cfer), Special Complementary Transportation (CETC) and Drug Prevention and Care (CPD) coordinators, linked to the department; Subsecretariat of Licensing, Inspection and Urban Control (of the Municipal Finance Department); Subsecretariat of Health Surveillance (of the Municipal Health Department); Municipal Secretariat of Social Assistance and Human Rights; Comlurb; Cedae; Light; Rioluz; and Military Police.