The delegate of the Government in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, accompanied by the subdelegate of the Government in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Javier Plata, today presided over the presentation of the 30 new National Police officers assigned to the Border Post of the Airport of Tenerife South and the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The event, in which 26 newly admitted policemen assigned to the Border Post of the Airport of Tenerife South and 4 to the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife were presented, took place at the airfield of Tenerife and in which the Superior Chief of Police of the Canary Islands, Jesús María Gómez, and the director of the Airport of Tenerife South of Aena, Juan Carlos Peg, also participated.

“There is a commitment on the part of the Government of Spain to increase, on a general level, the strength of the Forces and Bodies of the State. And, in this sense, the Canary Islands is no stranger to the growth of National Police and Civil Guard agents. Already at the end of 2024 we had a balance of troops of State Security Forces and Corps that exceeded for the first time the 8,000 components. And this is the result of an increase of 13% in the last seven years,” says the government delegate in the Canary Islands.

“Today, this desire to increase staffing is materialized with the incorporation of national police officers whose first destination in their promising career is the Canary Islands, specifically a total of 53 police officers. We are talking about an increase in the supply of new posts for our islands that we hope will also serve to motivate Canarian opponents and future opponents. Let them know that, with their efforts, they can get a first destination at home,” he adds.

In this sense, Anselmo Pestana recalled that “until 2020, a recently sworn national police of the Basic Scale had to serve for approximately 7 years in another point of the country to obtain a place in the Canary Islands, and today half a hundred men and women who begin their professional stage among us”.

A continuous increase in the number of police officers in the Canary Islands

The Government of Spain, through the Ministry of the Interior, has increased 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 with a positive balance of 6 more occupied posts, and the incorporation of the 26 newly admitted police.

To these 26 newly sworn agents for the airfield, are added the 4 presented today also in the Airport of Tenerife South that will go to the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, plus the 12 of Puerto del Rosario and the 11 of Arrecife, throwing a total incorporation of 53 police officers once again in the Archipelago.

This half-hundred troops must be added to the 90 busiest positions in the entire Canary Islands after the resolution of the General Merit Contest convened last March, which increases the number of National Police troops in the Archipelago by 143.

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 7 years.