Gypsy Jan
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New Message from the Rosarito Mayor's Office
(After I posted, I had a rethink and maybe this should be moved to Baja News Forum.)
Mayor Hugo Torres has established an office with Bi-lingual staff to assist English speaking folks with assistance with a problem. The office phone
number for this new office is 661-612-0396.
Take the time to put these numbers in your phone.
Marco Nuno has a Nextel at 152*137260*20
Fernando Toledo's Nextel is 152*137260*21
Email is: assistance@rosarito.org
Web site: www.rosarito.org
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT (FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVE HERE) WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL THESE NUMBERS AND DESCRIBE THE SITUATION &
LOCATION. THEY WILL DISPATCH THE PROPER AUTHORITY TO THE SITUATION. IF YOU'RE STOPPED INCORRECTLY (WITHOUT CAUSE) YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO NOTE THE TIME
OF DAY, DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON(S) THAT STOPPED YOU AND A VEHICLE DESCRIPTION AND LET THIS DEPARTMENT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
There were 238 residents installed as "neighborhood watch group" last Tuesday. These are 238 "sets of eyes" that will impact and assist taking our
City back again, like the old days.
Some other measures that the Mayor has implemented in his first 90 days in office are:
Special Unit Police for Tourists. 13 new cars and 20 Bi-lingual Officers for this special force.
Six "Information Booths" from this weekend and through the summer that are staffed with volunteers from the local American Community AND Students from
the University of Baja California.
A special City Attorney is in place to assist Tourists who may be involved in an accident. This is a bilingual person who will take the tourist by the
hand and walk them through the process with speed.
Remember Daylight Savings in Mexico does not start until April 6. USA starts March 9.
Measures taken to increase safety
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 7, 2008 TIJUANA – Baja California officials said yesterday they are expecting close to 200,000 Mexican and foreign
tourists to visit their state during the upcoming spring break and Holy Week period. "For us, it's going to be a vacation period like we haven't seen
for the past two years," Oscar Escobedo Carignan, Baja California's tourism secretary, said at a news conference in Tijuana. "We believe we have an
opportunity in our hands." Reports of violence and police extortion in Baja California took a heavy toll on tourism and were a factor in reducing the
number of U.S. visitors to the state by close to 2 million last year. Lengthy waits at the border also have discouraged visits, officials say.
Escobedo stressed the measures that have been taken to make the state safer for visitors, including the restructuring of tourist police units,
increasing federal patrols on the toll road between Tijuana and Ensenada, and staffing the state's emergency response center with English-speakers.
Escobedo said police extortions have dropped dramatically in recent months following a series of measures by the state and municipal governments. The
Tourism Secretariat is anticipating that vacationers will spend close to $20 million in the state during the period that starts Monday and ends March
24. In addition to spring break and the Christian Holy Week, the state anticipates visitors for the SCORE San Felipe 250 Road Race March 14-15. The
state is adding staff to operate tourist information booths in all five municipalities. Rosarito Beach authorities swore in 238 citizen watchdogs this
week to assist tourists. The Baja California Attorney General's Office has added English-speaking staff to take tourists' crime reports.
[Edited on 3-8-2008 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
(IF YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT (FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVE HERE) WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL THESE NUMBERS AND DESCRIBE THE SITUATION
& LOCATION. THEY WILL DISPATCH THE PROPER AUTHORITY TO THE SITUATION. IF YOU'RE STOPPED INCORRECTLY (WITHOUT CAUSE) YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO NOTE THE
TIME OF DAY, DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON(S) THAT STOPPED YOU AND A VEHICLE DESCRIPTION AND LET THIS DEPARTMENT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
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******* Jan... Do you still believe this ****?
How does anybody make the bull**** call while involved in the drama?
They will dispatch a person to do what? Argue with the police?
Look at what's happening. Torres is giving tourists a means to report his abusive police, which will lead to nothing, rather than address his
scummy police force toward an end that will stop their abuses.
Which would you prefer? A good cop or a phone number.
[Edited on 3-9-2008 by BajaNomad]
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Roberto
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Dennis,
You are on this board constantly. There's hardly a post you don't respond to tout-de-suite.
I am ordering you to take a two week break. No reading, and CERTAINLY no posting for that period of time. You will thank me. Or not. 
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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT (FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVE HERE) WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL THESE NUMBERS AND DESCRIBE THE SITUATION &
LOCATION. THEY WILL DISPATCH THE PROPER AUTHORITY TO THE SITUATION. |
If your smart you'll give your
neighbors name and address, rather then your own.  
[Edited on 3-9-2008 by bancoduo]
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DENNIS
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NOT.
Bite me, Robozo.
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Gypsy Jan
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Sharing Information
For Dennis and anyone else,
I am simply passing on information that the Nomads can use.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Iflyfish
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Thank you for posting this. It will be interesting to see if they actually follow through and if this really works. The words are right and the
volunteers are clearly demonstrating a committment to their community. This is the sort of effort, if genuine, that it will take to decrease the
amount of abusive behavior towards tourists. The proof of the flan is of course in the tasting.
Iflyfish
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oldlady
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They shoot messengers here
Some injuries, no fatalities
Ergo
They shoot blanks
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Woooosh
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Well, this is better than tryin to call the Mexican Army I guess.
Our SUV was pelted with large rocks on the toll road last wednesday around dusk. Just before the Trump resort. We were lucky, but another car with
US plates got hit. One just bounced around under my undercarriage. Neither of us stopped.
When I got safely home I called the numkber posted for the Mexican Army for assisitance (664-685-0297) and got no answer. It's easy to keep crime
stats down when you don't answer the phone I guess.
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