The deputy delegate of the Government, Isabel Rodríguez, presided over the official act of the patron of the National Police held this morning at the Círculo de las Artes in Lugo, where she highlighted the permanent work of service to the citizenship of the body, guarantees of citizen security “and the protection of the rights and freedoms of all people and groups.”
The deputy delegate was accompanied by the new provincial chief commissioner, Luis Miguel Romera, who welcomed him after taking the lead of the National Police “with the conviction and gratitude that he will make available his long experience at the service of this body”, also thanking his predecessor, José María Esteban, “all the work done in recent years at the head of the Lucense police station, with a firm commitment to the defense and safeguarding of citizen security”.
At the official event of the festival of the Guardian Angels, the corporate banners financed by the Provincial Council were also premiered and delivered to the police stations of Lugo, Monforte de Lemos and Viveiro on the occasion of the 200th anniversary, with an embroidery of the coat of arms of each police station and a significant emblem of each locality. Rodríguez thanked the provincial institution “for showing off these scripts on a day like today.”
In her speech, the subdelegate stressed that “good coexistence and effective law enforcement would not be possible without the work and commitment of all the people, men and women, who make up the National Police Force”, addressing both the officials who carry out their work in Lugo and those of the police stations of Monforte and Viveiro, “without you we would have a worse society”, she said, alluding to the actions carried out this last year.
Main interventions
In this balance sheet, he highlighted operations that achieve the detection of fraud and scams, the intervention against thefts in establishments, homes or public spaces, or the reduction of conflict in nightlife. “We know that official statistics place the province of Lugo among the territories with the least conflict, but we are not going to lower our guard.”
In this regard, he recalled that “in these months it was also possible, thanks to the cooperation between the Security Forces and Forces, to carry out multiple interventions framed in various devices to eradicate drug outlets, disarming two networks and arresting the members of the clans that supported them, in addition to seizing about 400 doses of different substances.”
Cybercrime and male violence
A government sub-delegate in Lugo explained the need to “face new problems that force us to seek immediate solutions and professionalize and perfect the response.” In this regard, he stressed that the parameters of cybercrime decreased with respect to the previous period by 27%, with 200 fewer cases of computer scams, “although we must continue to focus on these crimes.
“We have other challenges that are well known to us and to society as a whole, such as male violence, to which a great effort is already being made to combat it in coordination with all social agents,” he stressed, adding that “it is tremendously hard to continue seeing this trickle of male crimes that does not stop, but today I want to thank you for your involvement to give the most agile and appropriate response to these types of cases.”
Award Delivery
During the event, in which the mayor of Lugo, Lara Méndez, the provincial deputy, Pablo Rivera, the delegate of the Xunta, Javier Arias, the chief prosecutor of the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, Roberto Brezmes, the subdelegate of Defense in Lugo, Juan José Fernández and the acting lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard Command in Lugo, Julio González, also participated, 14 distinctions were awarded to police merit 2023.
The people awarded this year with the Police Cross of Merit with a white badge are police officer Elena Cruz, and police officers Benito Muíña, José Regueiro, Jesús Gayoso, Mario González, Pedro López, Marcos Montoto, Pedro Rodríguez, Raúl Díez, Juan González and José Manuel García, as well as Civil Guard commander Santiago Pichel, Civil Guard captain Mª José Moreno and the president of the Circle of the Arts, Miguel Ángel Carje.