The government delegate, Pedro Blanco, today praised the people and entities decorated this year with the Civil Merit and Protection Merit medals as examples of “heroic Galicia” and “guide to action” for the rest of society. “In times marked by immediacy, by superficiality”, the delegate claimed “to make visible the heroic behaviors, the uncompromising professional trajectories, and to extol the outstanding”.
Pedro Blanco presided in A Coruña the act of imposition of medals that officializes the entry of eleven people and institutions in the orders to Civil Merit and Civil Protection. The list includes five members of the National Police Force, five members of the Civil Guard, a private security guard, a private individual and the Zonal Maritime Rescue Center of Fisterra, as a group.
The delegate named one by one the services that accredit each of the decorations, and that speak of men and women “heroes on earth and at sea”, who distinguished themselves either by meritorious action as an aid to a person in danger, or by an unblemished professional trajectory focused on the common good. All these merits make up the proposal raised by the Government Delegation in Galicia and attended by the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, responsible for these Orders to Merit, to approve its concession.
The event was attended by the Subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas; the Subdelegate of the Government in Ourense, Emilio González; the General Chief of the Civil Guard of Galicia, Miguel Ángel González, and the Superior Chief of Police of Galicia, Ramón Gómez.
List of decorations
This year, a total of 8 medals were awarded for Civil Protection Merit and three for Civil Merit.
Order of Merit for Civil Protection:
-In the Bronze Degree with white badge: team of the Finisterre Rescue Center; Andrés Roza Martínez and Cristina Castro Casanova, national police assigned to the Lugo Police Station; Montserrat Pérez González, national police assigned to the A Coruña Police Station; Vicente Rodríguez Doval and Javier Abel Rodríguez, civil guards assigned to the Becerreá (Lugo) post and Pablo Nieto Marino, vixilante of private security.
-In the Bronze Degree with red badge: María Teresa Álvarez Quicler, president of the Provincial Red Cross Group in Pontevedra.
Order of Civil Merit:
-In the Grade of Cruz de Plata, to Héctor Méndez Fernández, civil guard assigned to the post of Palas de Rei (Lugo).
-In the Officer’s Degree of Cross, Miguel Ángel Ferrero Cuesta, Chief Commissioner of the Border Post of the National Police in the Port of Barcelona.
-In the Degree of Cruz, to Oscar Méndez Docasar, Deputy Chief Inspector of the Subgroup of the Specialized and Violent Crime Unit of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of the Ourense Police Station.