Cantabria has reached 1,767 National Police and Civil Guard personnel, the highest figure in the last 11 years, thanks to the 8.2 percent increase in the staffing of both bodies in the Autonomous Community and in the country as a whole promoted by the Ministry of the Interior since 2018.
With the incorporation in the next few days of the new agents of National Police and Civil Guard to their destinations in Cantabria, after having passed the training processes in two academies, there will be 1,767 troops of the State Security Forces and Corps active in the Autonomous Community, very close to the historical record of 1,802 troops registered in 2011.
The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, stressed that “in total 134 new agents have joined Cantabria in the last five years, which represents an increase of 8.2 percent since December 2017, when the total workforce of both bodies had fallen to 1,633 personnel”.
Thus, Quiñones recalled that, during the previous seven years, “there had been a sustained decrease in agents, with a total loss of 169 troops between 2011 and 2017.”
“Thanks to the firm commitment of the Ministry of the Interior, this process has been practically reversed in the last five years thanks to the Government’s commitment to recover the staff of both bodies, with five successive public job offers and all of them with replacement rates greater than one hundred percent.”
This progressive increase in staffing levels of the State Security Forces and Corps promoted by the Ministry of the Interior has also occurred in the rest of Spain.
In total, in Spain, 156,453 officers will be reached in the next few days, 74,458 in the National Police and 81,995 in the Civil Guard. “We reached the historic maximum of agents, exceeding the previous maximum recorded in December in 2011,” said the delegate.
OPERATION SUMMER
On the other hand, the Government delegate in Cantabria has indicated that next Saturday, July 1, Operation Summer 2023 will start and that in the case of our Autonomous Community it will have the participation of 812 agents, 253 of the National Police and 559 of the Civil Guard.
The Summer Operation, designed and promoted by the Secretary of State for Security, takes place in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Asturias, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, the Valencian Community, Galicia, Madrid and Murcia until August 31, and in the Balearic Islands, where it will be extended until September 30.
The objective of this planning, which was announced today in Malaga by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, is to increase citizen security in tourist areas by minimizing the risks associated with criminal activity.
“In the Ministry of the Interior we know that one of the factors that gives most added value to our tourism sector is the work that you do National Police and Civil Guard to provide tourists, wherever they come from, a safe and protected space in which to enjoy all the activities linked to their rest,” said Grande-Marlaska, who has detailed that 45,417 agents will focus their work on tasks related to the protection of tourist activity in the Autonomous Communities covered by Operation Summer: 24,739 national police and 20,678 civil guards.
This extensive police deployment aims to increase surveillance and preventive control in urban and interurban communication routes, stations, ports, airports, hotels, beaches and campsites, and in general on the occasion of those events that involve a large concentration of people.