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María Rivas highlights police collaboration as a key element to improve security indexes in the city of A Coruña

30/10/2023
María Rivas highlights police collaboration as a key element to improve security indexes in the city of A Coruña

It is important to note that the prison violations committed in A Coruña between January and June fell by 6% with respect to the previous year. María Rivas valued the situation of citizen security as good thanks to the good collaboration and coordination with the Local Police with 48 coordination meetings since November last year to jointly plan the devices.

The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, presided together with Mayor of A Coruña, Ines Rey, the Local Security Board in which the citizen security data in the municipality were studied. Regarding them, the subdelegate highlighted the 6% decrease in the number of prison violations committed between January and June of this year. In particular, they highlighted the significant reduction in crimes related to theft of homes and vehicles.


In this same vein, María Rivas highlighted the decrease in the crime rate in the city, which decreased by 2.5% with respect to 2022.


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. Thus, the subdelegate highlighted the 2% increase in the number of detainees for prison offences.


The subdelegate also points to the increase in the number of agents that responds to the Government’s commitment to the recovery of the troops thanks to the double effort in budgets and in calls for public employment. In this regard, he stressed that the National Police in the A Coruña Police Station currently has 777 personnel, which means an increase in its staff by 5.14% with respect to the year 2018. 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 deputy delegate also made statements about the homicide that occurred in Arteixo.


Also present at the Xunta Local de Seguridad were the Provincial Commissioner of the National Police in A Coruña, Fernando Martínez, as well as representatives of the Seconded Police Unit and the Local Police. Also in attendance were the Secretary General of the Government Delegation in Galicia, Alberto de la Fuente; the Councilor for Interior and Citizen Attention, Montserrat Romero; as well as Director of Citizen Security, Carlos García Touriñan.