The delegate of the Government of Spain in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has highlighted the importance of police training to prevent phenomena such as youth gangs, criminal groups formed by young people and minors in many cases and that in recent years “in places like Madrid are generating a great social alarm”.
Quiñones pointed this out this Monday at the inauguration of the ‘Training Days on Detection of Bands and Youth Groups’ organized by the Higher Police Headquarters of Cantabria in collaboration with the Cantabrian Institute of Public Administration (ICAP).
The Government delegate has inaugurated this course, in which 22 local police and five national police will participate throughout the week, along with the Counselor of Presidency, Justice, Security and Administrative Simplification, Isabel Urrutia; and the Superior Chief of Police, Carmen Martínez.
Quiñones has indicated that this course aims to “acquire tools to know, detect and identify the members of these organized youth groups of violent nature and also to know how to properly channel the information collected to researchers.”
“Youth violence has evolved a lot and very quickly in recent years. Therefore, the National Police has updated the Plan of Police Action and Coordination against Violent Youth Groups,” said the delegate.
And, he said, “after the pandemic, there has been a general reactivation of the activity of youth groups” and, with this course, in Cantabria “we want to put the bandage before the wound, as it is colloquially said, training agents to know the functioning of these bands before they have a greater impact on our Autonomous Community”.
COURSE CONTENT
Throughout the five days of the course, students will learn about the work carried out by the National Police in this area and the appropriate communication channels for the transfer of this information to the National Police Force.
To this end, the sessions will include presentations by experts in the field, all of them officials of the National Police, belonging to the General Commissariat of Information, and the Provincial Information Brigades of the Headquarters of Madrid and Cantabria.
As for the content of the presentations, they will deal with the characteristics of organized youth groups in Spain, origin and evolution of these groups, profile of their members and indications of belonging to a band, psychological aspects of the members of the bands, and action plan and police coordination against violent youth groups, among other topics.