Albacete.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has valued the enormous support and collaboration of the local police in matters of security with the State Security Forces and Bodies, especially in areas such as the protection of women victims of gender violence or in the adherence to the agreements -through the signing of the municipalities - in matters of general security.
Tierraseca, who participated in the opening of the VII National Meeting of Local Security, SeguCITY, which is held this Thursday 23 and Friday 24 in Albacete, has “presumed” that this autonomous community “is an example of collaboration in institutional matters and also between the different Security Forces and Bodies”.
This collaboration is evident in many areas, “also in the area of security, which is what we are dealing with today”, and in recent years “we have asked for the collaboration of local police in decisive moments, such as COVID, storm Filomena or the different DANAS, which “has led us to work side by side”.
But, Tierraseca added, this joint and coordinated work goes “much further” and, in this regard, he thanked the local police for their “commitment” in the fight against gender violence and, “above all, in the protection of victims”. On this issue, he has highlighted “the significant change” experienced over the past four years. “In 2019 there were only four municipalities in Castilla-la Mancha with Local Police incorporated into the VioGén System, today there are 28, plus another 14 that are in the process of incorporation”.
Along with this, another of the major advances experienced these four years in the collaboration between the Government of Spain and the municipalities with Local Police has been “in the signing of agreements in general security matters”, which has led to regulate an operational coordination between Civil Guard and National Police with Local Police, especially in the performance and exchange of information and use of spaces. In the last two years, “there are already 30 municipalities that have acceded to these conventions.”
Technology for new challenges
“We have great challenges to face” and in them the role of the Local Security Boards will be key, of which Tierraseca has insisted on “their enormous importance” since they are “very effective” level of operational deployment, “with great potential and serve to analyze the security situation in each municipality and approve concrete actions”.
And one of the challenges “of the present”, said the delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, is the incorporation of video surveillance technology to citizen security, for which he has also thanked “the agility of permits” by the judicial authority for the installation of these systems.
“In recent years we have made spectacular progress in the installation of video surveillance services, as an element of strengthening security and guaranteeing the privacy of the population”, Tierraseca has not made clear to replace them with troops with presence in towns and cities. “In Castilla-La Mancha there are already 322 localities, 34 in the province of Albacete, that have installed this type of services,” said the delegate. New systems, such as the use of drones and counter-drones, will be added to them as their regulation progresses.
Finally, he thanked the National Union of Chiefs and Directors of Local Police (Unijepol), organizer of this meeting, for their collaboration in the “joint” objective of improving the management of local security and technical cooperation with public administrations and municipal entities.
The Government delegate has also congratulated the honored ones, among local police, tutors of the local police, police services for the protection of animals, direction of the local police, police services for the police management of diversity and women police who these days will receive their distinctions and recognitions in the meeting in Albacete.