Virginia Barcones attends the inauguration of the events planned nationally and exclusively in Salamanca on the occasion of Police Day

• The events have begun with a media exhibition and Museum of the National Police Force and will continue until the next day 20 • In Castilla y León there are 3,000 National Police officers deployed

September 14, 2023.- The delegate of the Government in Castilla y León, Virginia Barcones, attended this morning the inauguration of the events scheduled on the occasion of Police Day, a national exhibition that until next day 20 will be held exclusively in Salamanca. Through the programmed events, the multiple facets and works carried out by the agents of the National Police are shown, so Barcones has encouraged the Castilians and Leoneses as well as the Salamanca people to participate in them and to know in depth all that work.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Director General of the National Police, Francisco Pardo Piqueras; the Mayor of Salamanca, Carlos Manuel García Carbayo; the Deputy Director General of the Technical Cabinet of the National Police, Eulalia González Peña; as well as the Superior Chief of Police in Castilla y León, Juan Carlos Hernández Muñoz, as well as other heads of the National Police Force as well as institutional representatives.

Virginia Barcones has considered “a real pride” for Salamanca and for Castilla y León that Police Day will take place at the gates of such a special year for the National Police Force as will be the 200th anniversary that will be celebrated in 2024. Until the next 20th, the city of Salamanca becomes a ‘commissariat’ by hosting exhibitions, conferences, exhibitions of one of the most precious bodies of the citizens.

The events have begun with the inauguration of an exhibition that will continue throughout the days in which the elements of work of the National Police are appreciated as well as the divisions of which it consists, a sample that goes from historical and current police vehicles, to the work carried out by GEO, Scientific Police, Cavalry, Canine Guides, Mobile Brigade, Subsoil, Air Media, TEDAX among others.

This exhibition will be complemented on Saturday with an exhibition in the bullring. It is an operational demonstration in which Air Media, Canine Guides, Cavalry, TEDAX-NRBQ, GEO and Citizen Security units participate.

On Friday, the performance of the Symphonic Band of the National Police takes place in the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca and on Monday a cycle of conferences under the title ‘The Spanish police and its history’ takes place in Paraninfo, talks that “seem more than interesting in the run-up to its 200th anniversary”.

One of these conferences is about ‘The Police and the University’, which will be led by the rector of the University of Salamanca, Ricardo Rivero Ortego. In this regard, it should be stressed that last year began the activity at the University Training Centre of the National Police, based at the National Police School of Ávila and attached to the University of Salamanca.

On Tuesday 19, the El Liceo theater hosts at 7:00 p.m. the Gala ‘National Police Awards’ that recognizes the work of the written press, radio and television in the field of Human Values. The events culminate on the 20th in the Plaza Mayor with the central act of Police Day, the delivery of decorations and the tribute to the policemen who died in the act of service.

Virginia Barcones has explained that service, dignity, dedication and loyalty, in the service of citizenship are some of the characteristics that define the National Police Force. “It is undoubtedly these values that make the body one of the institutions most loved by our citizens,” he said.

Throughout the Spanish geography there are 70,000 women and men who make up the National Police Force. Of this total, 3,000 carry out their work “with tenacity and perseverance” in Castilla y León. “It is that tenacity, that work of the National Police, and of the State Security Corps, that makes Castilla y León one of the safest communities in Spain and, therefore, in Europe,” said the government delegate.

Barcones thanked the police officers for bringing Police Day to Salamanca and Castilla y León. He also thanked the agents for their daily efforts to “protect our society even at the cost of their lives.” Before closing, he encouraged citizens to enjoy the scheduled events to get to know “a little more about a National Police that is there to serve and protect.”