The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, stressed today that the National Police in the Santiago Police Station currently has 260 personnel, which means an increase in its staff by 19% with respect to the year 2018. María Rivas advanced this figure in the common meeting of the Local Security Board of the City of Santiago, which co-chaired with the mayor of the city, Goretti Sanmartín. The deputy delegate stressed that this figure responds to the Government’s commitment to the recovery of police forces after the cuts of previous legislatures and is “the result of a double effort: budgetary and training, to reverse an inherited situation.”
The Local Security Board studied the crime data of citizen security in the municipality. Regarding them, the subdelegate highlighted the decrease of 1.3% in the number of prison violations committed between January and June of this year. According to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, Santiago still has a crime rate lower than the national average.
The subdelegate wanted to value good collaboration and coordination with the Local Police, and valued the situation of citizen security as good, highlighting the good functioning of the prevention plan and joint patrols with members of both police forces. He also announced the putting into service of camouflaged patrols given the good functioning they are having in other Galician cities.
Gender Violence
The meeting analyzed data related to gender violence in the municipality, as one of the priority issues of citizen security. María Rivas highlighted the collaboration between the Government and the City Council in the monitoring and protection of victims of male violence in the municipality. And he reiterated to the Mayor the total availability and collaboration of the Subdelegation of the Government in A Coruña and the State Security Bodies and Forces to guarantee their protection.
Thus, he recalled that the City of Santiago is adhered to the Viogen system of police monitoring of the Ministry of Interior. By virtue of this accession, the collaboration of the Government with the City Council also has an economic aspect. The subdelegate pointed out that this collaboration translates this year into the transfer of 34,980 euros to the Local Government for the development of measures related to the State Pact against Gender Violence. In addition, María Rivas announced that the interinstitutional coordination table to combat gender violence will be reactivated in the City Council, in which all the entities involved, directly or indirectly, in this task are represented.
Finally, he reported that it is planned that, at the beginning of next year, the annex building of the National Police Commissariat will come into operation, which will house the auditorium, the archive and the brigades; and whose refurbishment involves an investment amounting to 888.080 euros.
Also present at the Local Security Board were the Superior Chief of the National Police of Galicia, Ramón Gómez Nieto; the Accidental Chief Inspector of the Santiago Police Station, Marta García; the Commissioner of the Unit Attached to the Autonomous Community, Jorge Rubal; the General Secretary of the Government Delegation in Galicia, Alberto de la Fuente; the Councillor for Mobility, Coexistence and Sociocultural Centers of the City of Santiago, Xan Duro; and the Head of the Local Police of Santiago.