The delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has presented the new agents of the National Police in practices for the province of Alicante, together with the provincial head of Alicante, Manuel Lafuente, and the subdelegate of the Government, Carlos Sánchez.
In total, there are 128 personnel of the Basic and Executive Scale of the National Police, of which 41 are women, who from tomorrow will develop an internship period in the different police stations of the province of Alicante. The Basic Scale policemen will be training for 12 months, while the Executive Scale training period will be seven months.
As the delegate has said, the incorporation of these police officers and inspectors in practices will strengthen the police staffs for the duration of their learning period. In addition, they will expand the planned deployment for Operation Summer that began on July 1 and will extend until August 31 in the Valencian Community. This operation includes the increase of surveillance in strategic points for tourism such as stations, ports, hotels, beaches and campsites.
Bernabé stressed that “with Operation Summer special attention is paid to the tourism sector, one of the most important of the Spanish economic activity”. With this, it is transmitted to the tourist, both national and foreign, that “the Valencian Community is a safe destination that offers a tranquil environment for those who choose it as a destination”.
In the Valencian Community, the Ministry of the Interior has established a total of 7,860 agents for Operation Summer, 3,602 national police and 4,258 civil guards. In the case of the province of Alicante, the total number of personnel for the summer operation is 2,897, of which 1,614 are agents of the Civil Guard and 1,283 of the National Police. It is, as Barnabas said, “a record figure that has materialized thanks to the commitment to public safety.”
The delegate recalled the five successive offers of public employment convened on the joint initiative of the Ministry of Finance and Public Function and the Ministry of the Interior, all of them with replacement rates greater than one hundred percent that have favored that in the Valencian Community “the maximum historical number of agents of the State Security Forces and Corps has been reached with 14,800 troops. This has reversed a trend that came from previous governments to those of Pedro Sánchez.”