The Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, presented on Tuesday at the post of the Civil Guard of Sierra Nevada (Monachil, Granada) the device designed by this body to guarantee the integral security of the enclave and its area of influence, which in this winter season will include a reinforcement of 38 agents who will join the squads of the units operating in the area.
During the presentation of this device, Pérez recalled that the Ministry of the Interior defends that “public security is not only an end in itself, but also generates added value and contributes in a very relevant way to the progress of our society in all its extension”, since “it provides a series of utilities, often intangible, that act as a lever to reinforce the implementation of other policies that guarantee our welfare from an environment of peaceful coexistence”.
In the presentation of the deployment, the Secretary of State for Security has been accompanied by the delegate of the Government in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández; the president of the Provincial Council of Granada, José Entrena; the mayor of Monachil, José Morales, and the head of the Area of the Civil Guard of Andalusia, General Alfonso Rodríguez, among other authorities.
The ski resort of Sierra Nevada, one of the most important in Spain, received in the last winter season 21/22 more than 1.1 million visitors, which leads the Civil Guard to establish a special deployment each year to guarantee citizen security and public order both in those facilities and in their area of influence.
In addition, the heads of the Granada Command adopt a series of measures to ensure the protection of people and facilities; the prevention and investigation of crimes that occur; administrative police work; assistance, relief and rescue in the mountains; traffic management, and compliance with environmental legislation within the natural space of the area.
This device involves the territorial units of Citizen Security, Information and Judicial Police; the Special Rescue Group for Mountain Intervention (GREIM); the Nature Protection Unit; the Air Service, and the Traffic Subsector, among others. There are in total more than 150 agents who during this winter season will be strengthened with the temporary incorporation of 20 agents in the Citizen Security units and another 18 in the GREIM.
At all times, this device will act in coordination with the Attached Unit of the National Police of Andalusia, the Local Police of Monachil, Civil Protection, the assistance and health agencies, the private security operating in the region, the environmental agents of the Junta de Andalucía and the company CETURSA, which manages the ski resort.
BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE
Before the presentation, Pérez visited the premises of the Sierra Nevada Post, located in a property owned by the city of Monachil ceded since 1994 and which in 2022 has undergone a major remodeling.
Thanks to the financial contribution made by this municipal corporation, the Provincial Council of Granada and the Civil Guard itself, the reform has made it possible to expand the units; improve the main access; create its own offices for the Viogén Team or the GREIM, among other units, as well as improve the electrical, heating and waterproofing systems of the building.
On Monday, the Secretary of State for Security also visited the post of the Civil Guard of Diezma (Granada), accompanied by the subdelegate of the Government in Granada, Inmaculada López; the mayor of Diezma, Emilia Troncoso, and the head of the Command of the Civil Guard of Granada, Colonel Francisco García.
The property that occupies this position has also been refurbished in 2022 with financial support from the city council of this Granada town, which has allowed to expand the occupied area and improve its dependencies, which are now accessible, sustainable and energy-efficient, and have better facilities to serve the citizens who require it.
Pérez stressed the importance of the posts of the Civil Guard, “which assume those issues that most directly affect and concern citizens”, so they are at the center of the strategy of the Ministry of the Interior, “which places people at the center of the public security policies that we have been promoting”.