• The Government delegate in Castilla y León holds a meeting with the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, to address the upcoming implementation of the prison module of the Hospital de Salamanca and the commitment to the modernization of the penitentiary centers of the Community • Nicanor Sen emphasizes the need to strengthen the prison staff and continue along the path initiated by the current Government to continue increasing the staff of the National Police and Civil Guard

April 8, 2024. The government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, held a working meeting with the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, on Monday in ministerial departments to address and reinforce the implementation of internal security policies in the territory.

A meeting in which, among other issues, the current situation of the penitentiary centers of the Community was addressed, highlighting the important investment effort that is being made by the Ministry of the Interior in the modernization of the facilities.

At this point, Nicanor Sen expressed the need to strengthen the prison staff while taking an interest in the status of the project for the implementation of the prison module at the Hospital de Salamanca, which, as noted during the meeting, “the Ministry of the Interior has never renounced.”

Currently, the agreement is being prepared to adapt the space to the security needs required by the hospitalization of inmates in a hospital center, a process that takes its times and procedures. That is why the implementation of this space now depends on a purely administrative and not economic issue.

The other big issue that was addressed at the meeting was the situation of the State Security Forces and Corps, with the commitment on the table of the Government of Spain to continue advancing in the increase of the staff of Civil Guard and National Police in Castilla y León.

A goal that has been worked on in recent years, in which a historical maximum of agents has been reached, reaching 10,000 in the Community, and recovering more than 80% of the staff lost in the five years of the PP government. In any case, Sen conveyed to Pérez the need to prioritize the reinforcement of the staff of the Civil Guard in certain areas of the territory where a deficient number of agents has been detected to cover the needs.

This meeting allowed progress in other lines of action in the field of security, focusing on the increase in cybercrime, and in which it was shown that Castilla y León remains among the most secure communities in the whole of Spain, with a crime rate 14 points lower than the national average.