- The government delegate in Cantabria has presided on Monday the delivery of the medals of the Order of Civil Merit and Merit to Road Safety
The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has praised public security as “an indispensable part” of the five decades of democracy in Spain and has valued the contribution of the National Police, the Civil Guard and the Armed Forces to “guarantee the rights and freedoms of citizens”.
Casares expressed this way this Monday in the award of medals of the Order of Civil Merit and Merit to Road Safety, an act that has presided over the Government Delegation and in which the provincial head of Traffic, José Miguel Tolosa, has participated, who has delivered the medal to the Merit of Road Safety together with the delegate.
The event was attended by the president of the High Court of Justice of Cantabria (TSJC), José Luis López del Moral; the senior prosecutor of Cantabria, Jesús Arteaga; the first vice-president of Parliament, Alejandro Liz; the regional chief of operations of the National Police, Carlos J. Martínez; and the head of the Civil Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Julio Postigo, as well as other civil and military authorities.
The recognitions granted this Monday have been the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit to the deputy chief inspector of the National Police Jesús María Fernández Heras, the Cross of Officer of the Order of Civil Merit to the captain of the Civil Guard Alfonso Serrano Calvo, and the Medal of Merit of Road Safety, in bronze category with blue badge, to the agent of the Traffic Sector of the Civil Guard Roberto Caballero Martín.
The representative of the State has valued these decorations that recognize the “extraordinary work and permanent vocation of public service” of three professionals but that, in addition, “claim the fundamental role of the State Security Forces and Corps” and whose work makes Cantabria “one of the safest places in Spain, Europe and the world”.
Casares has praised the role of the Security Forces in the “advance of rights and liberties achieved in these 50 years of democracy”, five decades that have allowed “a social and economic development” with which Spain lives the “greatest period of prosperity, security, coexistence and peace in our history”.
“If today we are a modern country, at the forefront of the world and with one of the highest standards of well-being and progress, it is thanks to a collective success, a shared project that has brought us here in the last 50 years,” said the government delegate, who also pointed out that all this would not have been possible “if we had not been able to put aside our differences to put together everything that unites us.”
For this reason, he has appealed to “understand us again” and to “dialogue, agree and work to make our country a space of harmony,” Casares said.
He also highlighted the work of the three agents recognized this Monday, their “vocation of service, delivery and commitment to Spain”. “Your example is the greatest greatness of our society, the best demonstration that we can add efforts, that we can put all our capacity at the service of others and help improve our country,” the delegate concluded.
THANKS FROM THE DECORATED
After the imposition of the medals, the Deputy Chief Inspector of the National Police Jesús María Fernández Heras stressed that he receives this decoration with “pride, humility and renewed commitment” since it is a recognition of his “work” but especially the “collective effort” of the Narcotics Group of the National Police in Cantabria. “This distinction is not only mine, it is also those who have accompanied, taught, supported and trusted me along the way,” he said.
For his part, the captain of the Civil Guard Alfonso Serrano Calvo has attributed the merit of his recognition to the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard in Cantabria. “Working with professionals like them is what has made it possible for the work to be visible and for it to be here today collecting this decoration,” he said.