The deputy delegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, presided this Saturday the act of celebration for the 200th anniversary of the National Police in Pontevedra, highlighting the great work of the body with the citizens. The tribute for the bicentenary included the raising of a national flag. Accompanied by the provincial commissioner, Juan José Díaz, the deputy delegate expressed his total support for the work of all the men and women who make up the National Police Force and thanked them for two centuries of life, ensuring citizen security, individual rights and constitutional freedoms.
“They are two hundred years of total dedication to the Spanish and the Spanish, before which any word of thanks is short,” he said. Thus, Abel Losada recognized that “despite the fact that many of the traditional threats against which the police fight persist, such as organized crime, terrorism or traditional crime, “there are numerous new challenges to which you offer an efficient and close response today, such as the fight against male violence, the problems derived from climate change, or cybercrime.”
The subdelegate praised the work of the National Police Force as a value with different perspectives, among which he highlighted the “ethical commitment, to guarantee the security of all without any discrimination due to nationality, race, sex, gender or sexual orientation” and, secondly, security “as an increasingly important economic value in a changing world in which threats are increasingly changing and global.” “It is here that the police demonstrate their ability to adapt to the changing world, with new forms of crime, new risks and threats, and it is here that citizens find the protection to live in freedom,” he added.
In this line, the subdelegate stressed the Government’s commitment to accompany the National Police on the path of modernization and to reinforce it by recovering since 2018 a total of 14,381 net places in the State Security Forces and Corps, which is the highest number of troops in history.
Finally, he encouraged the agents to persevere “in the effort demanded by society in this new security model, which is based on the constitutional axes of: freedom, equality, territorial cohesion and commitment to public services, which are also the axes of this progressive government.”