The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has claimed in the act the “tenacity” and the “indispensable contribution” of the National Police so that “Spain is one of the safest countries in the world and to make Cantabria one of the best lands to live within our country in which the citizens perceive, feel, live with an enormous sense of security thanks to their work”.
“Your firm commitment is to defend life, guarantee security, protect the free exercise of the rights and freedoms of all, work for peace and coexistence and protect the most vulnerable, without forgetting anyone, and that makes us all feel a deep sense of pride and gratitude for your service to Spain and the citizens who live in it,” Quiñones told police officers.
This has been pointed out this Thursday in the commemoration of the Guardian Angels, patron of the National Police, and in which, in addition to the Superior Chief of Police of Cantabria, Carmen Martínez, have attended the President of the Parliament, María José González Revuelta; the Counselor of Presidency, Justice, Security and Simplification Administration, Isabel Urrutia; the President of the Superior Court of Justice of Cantabria, José Luis López del Moral; the Superior Prosecutor of Cantabria, Pilar Jiménez; and the Rector of the University of Pazos, among others.
The delegate also stressed that “this Government of Spain knows, knows and defends the very important role that you play in Spanish society”. “And it does so with facts that demonstrate the conviction that strengthening the National Police is the best way to strengthen our country and its institutions,” he said.
Thus, he pointed out that, “in the last five years, the number of police and Civil Guard agents has increased to reach the historical record of 156,400 agents and 1,767 agents in Cantabria throughout the country.”
Three Crosses to Police Merit with a White Badge were presented to the personnel outside the National Police: the Head of State Law in Cantabria, Telmo Esteban Fernández; the President of the Port Authority of Santander, Francisco Martín, and the Civil Guard’s Chief Petty Officer, José Antonio Nievas.
20 Crossings of Police Merit with White Badge have also been imposed on national police, all of them assigned to the Superior Police Headquarters of Cantabria, and the delivery of diplomas to eight retired officials during 2022.
In addition, three recognition plates have been given to professionals outside the institution as a thank you to their collaboration with the National Police, to María Teresa Zarrabeitia, recently deceased, in gratitude for promoting the specialty of Scientific Police in the teaching of her Chair of Legal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cantabria; to Pedro Nalda, for his collaboration with the National Police in the exercise of his positions as delegate of the Government and as councillor of Security and Citizen Protection of the City of Santander; and to José Manuel Conde, the author of this institution.