The government delegate, Francisco Mendoza, participated today in the act of taking office of the new Commissioner of the National Police of Badajoz, Manuel Luis Veiga Casas, which took place this morning in the Government Delegation.

During his speech, Francisco Mendoza congratulated the new Commissioner. “You come to the safest region of Spain where you are going to work with a team of qualified, loyal and effective professionals,” he said and said that among the objectives of the delegation and the current government are: to have more police, more means and more training, “is the commitment we accept.” “Protecting and guaranteeing citizen security and the free exercise of rights and freedoms”, the main task of the Security Forces and Corps “goes beyond being nice words, in addition to words we need means and in your work those means are essentially people, police officers prepared, trained and equipped”.

In this sense, he recalled that this Government “has it very clear” and this is demonstrated by the figures of these four years in which Extremadura has recovered 78.8 percent of the seats lost during previous stages.

In the National Police Force, the number of personnel has increased from 1,020 to 1,178, an increase of 15.5 percent. In the province of Badajoz there have been 158 places recovered in these years; and we will continue to recover troops with the new public job offers that are in progress.

Finally, the government delegate highlighted the role of the National Police in protecting citizens, “protecting the free exercise of rights and freedoms,” he said, something that was more than evident during the years of the COVID pandemic when “many citizens realized that the police are there to protect them and many police officers saw their vocation of public service satisfied and recognized.”

Mendoza added that without security there is no freedom and in this sense he referred to gender violence and the fifteen cases that have occurred in the last month and a half, so he defended to continue “putting into play all the necessary resources to try to avoid these deaths and as an essential part of them you are: The Security Forces and Corps.”

He also referred to cybercrime as another of the challenges facing the National Police and for which he was concerned. “We must understand both crimes as a new challenge of adaptation, commitment and effectiveness as understood by this Superior Leadership and you will be able to face it yourself,” he said to address the new head in Badajoz.