Lieutenant of the Civil Guard Antonio Jesús Bautista Fernández has been appointed director of the Temporary Immigrant Stay Center (CETI) by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, and next week, specifically on September 3, he will assume the maximum responsibility of this migrant reception center.
Bautista Fernández, lieutenant of the Civil Guard since 2017, has been commissioner in the Intelligence Area of the Regional Coordination Center of the Canary Islands, carrying out tasks of obtaining, analyzing information and preparing intelligence reports in the field of irregular immigration from the African continent to the Canary Islands and South of the Iberian Peninsula.
In addition, the new director of the CETI of Ceuta has extensive training in matters related to migration and foreigners, human rights, organized crime and crimes linked to mafias and exploitation, trafficking and sexual violence, as well as hate crimes, racism and xenophobia. Graduated in Criminology at the School of Criminology of Catalonia in 2003, graduated in Law in 2022 by the European University of Madrid and graduated in Psychology in 2024 by the University of Malaga Antonio Jesús Bautista has been a volunteer of the Spanish Red Cross since 2011, where he has carried out various specialization courses of psychological first aid in different scenarios, of international protection and asylum, of international and humanitarian law, of humanitarian diplomacy, of gender perspective and of protection and detection of trafficking in childhood, among others. Between 2023 and 2024, the head of the temporary immigrant stay center of Ceuta has completed the Masters in Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Carlos III University of Madrid), and in Human Rights, Democracy and Globalization (Universtitat Oberta de Catalunya), and this year in General Health Psychology, and in Law and Legal Practice, both at the International University of Valencia.