Lost & Found Found! Wallet and iPhone outside of cafe on route to Portamarin.

[Capeheart]

Outside of cafe on route to Portamarin. Location: A Parrocha. personal phone number removed. Please send private message to claim.

 

[JustOneGuy]

Maybe you already have, but wouldn't it be better to give it to the local police and just say so here? The owner may be a passerby who is not walking the Camino.

 

[MickMac]

Outside of cafe on route to Portamarin. Location: A Parrocha. personal phone number removed. Please send private message to claim.

If there is bankcards contact bank.

 

[J Willhaus]

Maybe you already have, but wouldn't it be better to give it to the local police and just say so here? The owner may be a passerby who is not walking the Camino.

You would need to contact the Guardia Civil. No police station in that town. Might be a GC post in Portomarin. They patrol the last 100 km of the Camino in high season as well.

 

[JustOneGuy]

You would need to contact the Guardia Civil. No police station in that town. Might be a GC post in Portomarin. They patrol the last 100 km of the Camino in high season as well.

Despite living in Spain since 6 years I still don't fully understand how the various police forces - Guardia Civil, Policia Local and Policia Nacional - here divide up their various responsibilities...

 

[Molly Cassidy]

Despite living in Spain since 6 years I still don't fully understand how the various police forces - Guardia Civil, Policia Local and Policia Nacional - here divide up their various responsibilities...

With lost items, I don't think it matters, you can hand it in anywhere. When I lost my bag in Spain it ended up with the Policia National. The security guard at the shop where I left it told me where it was.

 

[J Willhaus]

We met a GC officer who was a hospitalero volunteer on his vacation time at Arrés. He said the GC had the Caminos as part of their mission along with drug interdiction and some other things. The GC also stopped by to look at our registration book since it was not online.

 

[Kirkie]

Outside of cafe on route to Portamarin. Location: A Parrocha. personal phone number removed. Please send private message to claim.

I would like here to thank moderators for removing the phone number.

 

[Capeheart]

I would like here to thank moderators for removing the phone number.

 

[Capeheart]

Yes! Thank you.

 

[Capeheart]

Maybe you already have, but wouldn't it be better to give it to the local police and just say so here? The owner may be a passerby who is not walking the Camino.

ID suggested not a Spanish national. Thanks all for the responses to the initial post. The owner contacted me and the phone was successfully returned!

 

[MickMac]

ID suggested not a Spanish national. Thanks all for the responses to the initial post. The owner contacted me and the phone was successfully returned!

Well done, everybody likes a happy ending Màith thu.

 

[ELHS220]

Despite living in Spain since 6 years I still don't fully understand how the various police forces - Guardia Civil, Policia Local and Policia Nacional - here divide up their various responsibilities...

Here’s a blurb about the Policia Nacional vs. Guardia Civil. I think the Policía Local is just what it says. Smaller cities and larger towns have their own force. Santiago has Policia Local. Their headquarters are right at the bottom of the stairs (to the left) heading to the Pilgrim Office. I went in to get a stamp for my credential. In places lacking a P.L., I think the GC has the responsibility. Similar to here in Massachusetts. Any town that does not have its own police force relies on the State Police.

National Police Corps (Spain) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[ELHS220]

ID suggested not a Spanish national. Thanks all for the responses to the initial post. The owner contacted me and the phone was successfully returned!

YAY!! Good news, indeed.

 

[JustOneGuy]

Here’s a blurb about the Policia Nacional vs. Guardia Civil. I think the Policía Local is just what it says. Smaller cities and larger towns have their own force. Santiago has Policia Local. Their headquarters are right at the bottom of the stairs (to the left) heading to the Pilgrim Office. I went in to get a stamp for my credential. In places lacking a P.L., I think the GC has the responsibility. Similar to here in Massachusetts. Any town that does not have its own police force relies on the State Police.

National Police Corps (Spain) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Well, prompted by my own comment, I took a look online and realized this:

The Guardia Civil is a Spanish military corps in charge of maintaining public safety in rural and suburban areas of the country. The Guardia Civil is under the direction of the Ministry of the Interior and is in charge of crime prevention and investigation, as well as border protection and the fight against illegal drug trafficking and smuggling.

The Policia Nacional is a Spanish police force in charge of maintaining citizen security in urban areas of the country. The National Police is an armed institute of civilian nature, with a hierarchical structure whose mission is to protect the free exercise of rights and freedoms and to guarantee citizen security, with a scope of action throughout the national territory.

The Policia Local develop their function in the locality to which they belong and therefore their functions are limited to that territory. They can collaborate and cooperate with the State Security Forces and Corps in the prevention of crimes, but the functions that define them are the following:

• Protection of local authorities.
• Surveillance or custody of municipal buildings or facilities.
• Ordering, signaling.
• Direction of traffic in the urban center.
• Carrying out of attestations for traffic accidents occurring in the urban nucleus.

To be honest I am not sure if I fully understand the different scope, however... it is important when in Spain to realize that if, for example, you are harassed or stolen something, you should go to the Policia Nacional rather than to the Guardia Civil - at least, again, this is my understanding...

 

[J Willhaus]

We were told to call the GC in our rural albergues.

 

[bullingtonce]

Outside of cafe on route to Portamarin. Location: A Parrocha. personal phone number removed. Please send private message to claim.

If this wallet has $1,000 in it and a Costco gold bar, it is mine. Absolutely mine. Chuck

 

[C clearly]

The owner contacted me

Great news! I am curious how the owner found out that you had it. Which of your outreach methods worked?