Fools in the Pool

The silly season is upon us and already my Community have reported drunken pillocks in the Pool at 3.00am making an almighty row. This despite clear Notices that it closes at 10.00pm.

Some are suggesting we call the Police. Has anyone experience of the Spanish Police responding to such requests and if so what did they do? 

Probably will do nothing !

Perhaps best to find who it is and go to them if they are owners or the owner if they are renters.

Always there is someone ( many ) who don't care about the rules and fortunately most of them go home within two weeks!

The house beside us is mostly rented out and we have had a lot of bother with occupants making a lot of noise way into the wee small hours. Eventually I spoke to Spanish friends who told me that 11pm is cut-off time for noise, till 8am the next day. Also there´s no noise allowed during siesta time between 2-5.

During one lot of tenants, driven to distraction after several sleepless nights I rang the local police who couldn´t have been more helpful. They sent a patrol car straight away and ...no more noise. Definitely the right thing to do!

 Joe; Sadly the biggest problems in communities in the summer always seem to centre on the use of the swimming pools.

It is best to call the local police & on most occasions I have dealt with they have been very good .Ejecting the people from the swimming pool & giving them warnings after taking their passport details.

If they get abusive the local police calls in the CNP or Guarda & they are not tolerent people or to be messed with. They will take tourists into custody for the night & the next day to court.

I would advise against any confrontation with the people when they are under the influence of who knows what. If you deal with it directly do so with a witness the next day & follow it up in writing yourself or via the administrator.

It is all a laughing matter to some of these people until there is a accident in the pool at night when no one can see what has happened or help.

F.Parkinson Jacksons Administradoressl.es

Unfortunately the response from our local police is usually to say that if it's within a private community they can't do a thing, and they merely suggest making a "denuncia" against the offending property owner. When we had kids climbing over the garden walls and using the pool, they still told us they couldn't help - but are quick to point out that putting barbed wire up is illegal because it might injure someone trying to trespass on our property. Even the regular "botellón" that takes place in a garden opposite us until 2,3 or 4 in the morning, the police have stopped bothering with, telling us it's on private land, not a "via pública", so again, tell us to denounce the lanlord - if ony we knew who that was! Chocolate teapots come to mind....

The biggest problems we have, apart from the usual selfish and lazy parents who allow their revolting brats to run amok screaming their heads off disturbing everyone else's tranquility, are people (normally only tennants, owners generally  "get it") giving their keys to friends to come and use the pool when they're out at work etc., and holiday rentals. Fortunately, being a small community, we only have one apartment renting to holiday makers, but the owner, who's b*ggered off to S.America, obviously doesn't care (because it doesn't affect him) what his tennants get up to. Depsite the fact it's a 2 bed apartment, he doesn't care how many stay, so on occasion there's been 7 young hooligans there. We made a rule of only 4 people per apartment to use the pool at any one time, since it's a pretty small pool and can fill up very quickly - but of course they ignored it, and the police don't care one jot.

Roberto.......i am quite surprised that an Administrator person is saying ring the guardia and they will act!

In theory of course, you can do that, in practice the local police think you should sort it yourself and it's doubtful they will even arrive let alone 'do' something!

johnzx................complain about the guardia, on paper, are you quite mad?

Karen, I didn't say an administrator told us to call the police. At 3am our adminsitrator isn't around to ask anyway! I have regularly called the local police - sometimes they come to investigate and move people on, but lately they just say they can't do anything. Maybe it's the cutbacks?

John, with all due respect, I am fairly certain that if I was to do as you suggest, I could kiss goodbye to any kind of assistance from the local mafia police ever again.

NO Roberto I was not referring to you.....................this person   Jacksonsadmin

I knew you would have had more sense than to expect the guardia to call!

Roberto      John, with all due respect, I am fairly certain that if I was to do as you suggest, I could kiss goodbye to any kind of assistance from the local  police ever again.

As you saw, and you commented on, I did just that with that National Police and it resolved the problem.

I have been instrumental in  asking  the National Police for te complaints form, to assist people,  on several occasions and have never experienced  any problems.   I know a lot of people don’t believe, or don’t want to believe it but the police are public servants and are there to assist us.  In my experience they do not react in a juvenile way.

I wonder how far the punter would have got without your help, though? You already have a working relationship with your local police, more than likely helped by their knowledge that you were one of them, so to speak, in the UK. In my experience, nobody likes being complained about, especially in an official way, and least of all Spaniards. I will bear in mind your comments though, and next time they refuse to come out on the basis that the botellon is on private land, I will consider whether going to the police station the next day to register a complaint to some pen-pusher who will tell me I have no grounds for complaint because, after all, the botellon was on private land, is worth the bother or not.