October 2, 2023.- This morning the National Police Corps celebrated the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, the corps’s patrons, with an institutional act carried out in the Monastery of San Juan in the capital of Burgos, attended by the main authorities of the province.
In his speech, the deputy delegate of the Government, Pedro de la Fuente, praised the work of the National Police, highlighting the different operations that have been carried out in the last year, which make the province of Burgos a safe place.
At the same time, he stressed that “the different services and specialties in which the police officers are employed distilled results that we all enjoy: attention and assistance from professionalism and sensitivity, structuring where their presence, dedication and efficiency is required in multiple plans and programs in permanent contact with the different groups and their different problems, such as those of the Master Plan, or the VioGen System”.
During his speech, the subdelegate stressed that “we live in increasingly complex societies, with multiple variables that challenge knowledge and institutional work. The mixture of the real and the virtual, the disappearance of borders, an accelerated changing geopolitics, migratory movements of multiple etiology or an extraordinary scientific development that impels an equally sized response to unprecedented and transnational criminal scenarios that force the National Police to constantly evolve.”
Referring to the bicentenary of the National Police, which is celebrated next 2024, De la Fuente recalled the words of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who recently pointed out that “it will be time to applaud two centuries of public service, but with a look to the future, set to evolve and grow in order to continue being useful to Spanish society.”
For his part, the chief provincial commissioner of the National Police, Jesús Nogales, has pointed out that “the National Police is in a permanent and also accelerated adaptation to the demands presented to us by society”. In addition, it has warned of the exponential growth in economic crimes and against sexual freedom linked to the use of new technologies and has warned of the risks associated with the misuse of artificial intelligence.
Nogales has praised “that a National Police, public and universal, impartial, accessible and professional, available 24 hours a day, oriented to the security that generates freedom, is only possible in communion with citizens and the institutions of the society in which it serves.”
In the event, in which the Music Unit of the San Marcial Division has participated, fourteen police officers have been decorated with the police merit medal with a white badge and three officers with the police merit medal with a red badge.
In addition, the Provincial Commissariat has awarded a diploma with the title of ‘Honorary Police’ to the paralympic sportswoman, Marta Fernández, triple medallist in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the Down Burgos Syndrome Association. Tribute has also been paid to the policemen who died on duty.