Galicia reaches the maximum of police force in its history and walks face to face the 9,000 National Police and Civil Guard agents

Galicia walks the face of the 9,000 agents of the National Police and Civil Guard, the highest number of troops of the State Security Forces and Corps in history. The gradual incorporation into their police stations or barracks, during these summer days, of the latest promotions of agents who passed the initial training process in the academies of each body will make the personnel of the State Security Forces and Corps in Galicia reach 8,858 people. This is higher than the figure registered at the end of 2011, a date that until now marked the maximum number of police officers in the Community. Since that year, the personnel of the National Police and the Civil Guard experienced an accused reduction process that led to the fact that, in December 2017, both bodies numbered 8,214 troops in the Community. Therefore, the figure of this will see 644 more troops than five years ago, with a growth of 7.8%.

The increase in the number of National Police and Civil Guard personnel was made possible by the five successive offers of public employment convened at the joint initiative of the Ministry of Finance and Public Service and the Ministry of the Interior, all with replacement rates of over one hundred percent. In particular, these days the students of the XXXII Promotion of the Basic Scale of the National Police will be incorporated into their destination police stations. With respect to the Civil Guard, it is planned that from July 3, the students of the latest promotions departed from the Academy of Baeza (Jaén) and the College of New Guards of Valdemoro (Madrid) will arrive at the barracks.

At the national level, the number of troops also reaches the historic maximum of 156,400 national police and civil guards, as announced by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, during the presentation in Malaga of the deployment of the State Security Forces and Corps designed for Operation Summer 2023. This means that in five years the Government recovered a total of 14,381 net places, a figure that far exceeds the 13,077 personnel lost in the period 2012-2017.

Operation Summer

Many of the additions of new and new national police and civil guards in these coming weeks will allow to reinforce the police device of Operation Summer, which, as every year, aims to provide effective protection to all citizens, national or foreign, who come or move around Spain, and in particular, Galicia, to enjoy its summer holiday period, as well as all activities linked to tourism. Operation Summer starts this coming July 1st and the police device will be extended in Galicia until August 31st. A total of 3,642 police officers will dedicate this operation, which will pay special attention to the cities, tourist areas, festivals and the Camino de Santiago. Of this total, 2,021 personnel belong to the Civil Guard and 1,622 to the National Police Force.

In the case of the Civil Guard, the monitoring of the Camino de Santiago stands out, with the operation, one more year, of the Mobile Offices of Attention to the Pilgrim (OMAP), as well as the role of the Traffic Group in supporting the special operations designed by the General Directorate of Traffic to improve road safety on the trips of these dates. The National Police will focus its activity on the cities and on the care of pilgrims within the scope of its demarcation, as is the case of the city of Santiago.