Overview

• Officers from the National Police’s Grupo de Atención al Ciudadano detained two men in Chamberí on July 13 after they tried to manipulate a building lock using a plastic sheet.
• A separate early-morning operation in Arganzuela uncovered two individuals hiding in a portal with burglary tools and marking items such as picks, magnets, threads and plastics.
• All four suspects—two Romanian nationals aged 36 and 37 with prior records and two Georgian nationals aged 33 and 24—have been handed over to judicial authorities on charges of theft with force.
• Both interventions occurred within 48 hours as part of intensified summer preventive measures to curb a seasonal rise in residential break-ins across Madrid.
• The National Police has issued fresh recommendations urging residents to lock doors and windows, activate alarms and report any suspicious activity.