The Government of Spain, through the Ministry of the Interior, increases by 32 percent the number of National Police personnel at the Tenerife South Airport Border Post to 132 agents, following the resolution of the General Merit Contest 08/2025 and the incorporation of new personnel.

Prior to the call for the General Merit Contest by Resolution of the General Directorate of Police on March 4, 2025, the Border Post Airport Tenerife South of National Police had a staff of 100 personnel, which will become 132 on July 1, 2025 once the deadline for the incorporation of the 26 new agents into the Tenerife South airfield expired.

To these agents of new entry must be added the positive balance of 6 new positions occupied in the catalog of the Airport of Tenerife South that the General Merit Contest 08/2025, having produced more additions than exits of agents, fundamentally in the category of police.

“The new additions, the positive balance of 32 other agents at the Border Post of Tenerife South, will allow to lighten the control of passports of travelers who arrive at the airport, at a time of special strength for tourism in the Canary Islands and at one of the main entry gates of citizens who come from outside the Schengen area,” says the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana.

“From the Ministry of the Interior and through the Government Delegation, from our seven island headquarters, we remain very attentive to any security needs that may arise in our archipelago. And also, of course, to any need that may be registered to maintain the high standards in the management of the arrival of tourists to our country, as well as the guarantee of the right to free movement,” he adds.

Since 2018, the Ministry of the Interior has maintained the policy of calling each year a greater number of State Security Forces and Corps positions than the vacancies registered in the previous year, which has contributed to the 13% increase in the number of National Police and Civil Guard agents registered in the Canary Islands in the last seven years, to exceed 8,000 personnel.