Spain will reach the 156,453 agents of National Police and Civil Guardthe highest number of State Security Forces and Corps personnel in history, with the gradual incorporation to its police stations or barracks, during these summer days, of the latest promotions of agents who have passed the initial training process in the academies of each body.
Within this process, the Valencian Community reach out as well Record of agents with a total of 14,808 personnel. This figure has been possible thanks to an increase in this community of 1,718 National Police and Civil Guard officers in the last five years, which represents one increase of 13.1% since 2017.
The previous national record high had been set in December 2011, when the State Security Forces and Corps registered a total of 155,149 troops. From that date, the National Police and Civil Guard squads experienced a sharp reduction process that led to the two squads totalling only 142,072 in December 2017. The current figure of 156,453 National Police and Civil Guard officers represents a 10% increase compared to 2017.
The organic growth of the staff of the National Police and Civil Guard has been possible thanks to the five successive public job offers convened at the joint initiative of Ministry of Finance and Public Service and of Ministry of the Interior, all of them with replacement rates higher than one hundred percent.
The Delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, highlighted “the commitment of this government to public safety against the years in which the State Security Forces and Corps were plunged into utter precariousness.”
Operation Summer
Many of the additions of new national police and civil guards in the coming weeks make it possible to strengthen police deployment designed by Secretariat of State for Security in the Operation Summer which, as every year, aims to provide effective protection to all citizens, nationals and foreigners, who come or move around Spain to enjoy their summer holiday period, as well as all activities linked to tourism.
Operation Summer begins this next 1st of July and the police deployment will be extended until August 31 in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Asturias, Canarias, Cantabria, Valencian Community, Galicia, Madrid and Murcia, and in the case of the Balearic Islands it will be extended until September 30.
In the Valencian Community, a device of 7,860 officers, 3,602 national police officers and 4,258 civil guards, with the following distribution:
PROVINCE | NATIONAL POLICE | CIVIL GUARD | TOTAL |
Alicante | 1.283 | 1.614 | 2,897 |
Castellón | 248 | 738 | 986 |
Valencia | 2,071 | 1.906 | 3.977 |
C. VALENCIAN | 3.602 | 4.258 | 7.860 |
Protection of the Tourism Sector
This broad police deployment has as its objectives increase surveillance and preventive control in urban and interurban communication routes, stations, ports, airports, hotels, beaches and campsites, and in general on account of those events involving a large concentration of people.
In addition, it should serve to enhance criminal prevention effortsspeeding up the investigations of the Judicial Police units and speeding up and facilitating the procedures in the complaint offices, shortening waiting times and increasing the levels of public attention.
To this Operation Summer is added the reinforcement that Civil Guard allocate to the monitoring of the Camino de Santiago and the operation of ten Mobile Offices of Attention to the Pilgrim (OMAP), as well as the deployment of the Traffic Group in support of the Special operations designed by the Directorate General of Traffic to improve road safety levels during the summer months and facilitate the mobility of citizens despite the increase in all types of travel typical of these summer dates. It is also necessary to add the device of the National Police for the Camino de Santiago in its area of competence.
With Operation Summer, every year the Ministry of the Interior lends Special attention to the tourist sector, one of the most important of the economic activity Spanish, which has allowed to generate to the tourist, both national and foreign, that Spain is a Destination sure to offer an environment of tranquility and confidence For those who choose our country as a summer destination.