The whole association is committed to the delivery of the Ports of Arms. As already communicated in the last edition of Thought-killer, in recent weeks we have been contacted by the Brescia Police Headquarters, specifically by the Weapons Office, for a concrete collaboration on the umpteenth anomaly generated by theCovid19 epidemic. The extension of the state of emergency decreed by the Draghi Government has on the one hand extended the validity of the Ports of Arms up to end of March 2022 but it did not take into account the difficulties of the police who certainly could not do the work of renewing the PdA from home. So we found ourselves in the situation that many hunters they had attached to the renewal application the original booklet of the Port of Arms, extended in its validity but in fact at the Police Headquarters.
With a strong and courageous decision, the director of the Office, the doctor Frances Peppicelli, in agreement with his superiors, he contacted Federcaccia and the Lombard Hunters' Association, asking if we were available to lend a hand to return the Port of Arms to all those who had not been renovated. the old booklet. Obviously we have all given our full availability, putting aside any sense of associative belonging, and in 205 sealed envelopes we have redistributed the booklets to the municipalities, with which the Police Headquarters, through theAssociation of Municipalities, had made arrangements. The managers of the Police Headquarters have kept their word: we have not seen the embarrassing and unjust lines for the Brescia hunters of the past years and despite all the difficulties caused by the epidemic, the Offices have in any case renewed and sent more than 2.000 Ports of Arms before our arrival.
Unfortunately, this situation is the result of the structural impoverishment of the personnel of the Weapons Office of the Police Headquarters in the face of an increase in the bureaucratic steps to be carried out. If in Brescia there are 20.000 Ports of Weapons for hunting purposes and a number unknown to us of as many titles for sports use, it goes without saying that, being valid for 5 years, every year there are from 4.000 to 5.000 documents to be renewed. The Manager, who arrived in her new position a Brescia last fall, she had a clear idea of the situation and we believe she will move with determination to get additional staff, otherwise every year it will be an emergency.
We can only thank the heads of the Police Headquarters for having involved us in resolving this situation and we have faced our task with a spirit of service together with ACL by delivering the envelopes to each municipality. Our duty as managers of Hunting Federation, enshrined in our Statute, is to enable our members, all hunters, to go hunting, without ifs and buts (Source: Hunting Federation).