The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, met this morning in the Government Delegation with the General Director of Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Ministry of the Interior, Virginia Barcones, to review and evaluate the challenges of the public service of Civil Protection and its impact on the Galician community.
On her first visit to Galicia, the Director-General and the delegate highlighted the Government of Pedro Sánchez’s impetus for Civil Protection, which materialized in the National Civil Protection Strategy. The director said that the Ministry of the Interior is now facing the first renewal of this working and planning document, when it is five years old, to adapt it to the new challenges and phenomena that affect public security.
Among the challenges of this system, both agreed on the need to anticipate and improve action in the face of the impact of climate change, especially with the increase in extreme weather phenomena both in intensity and frequency. In this regard, the Government is working to strengthen the National Civil Protection System in the face of these new scenarios. At the same time, work is also being done to ensure that all citizens, regardless of where they live, have access to civil protection systems. One of the mechanisms to achieve this is the 112 ES-Alert System, the new tool promoted by the Government and which the Ministry successfully tested last year in Galicia.
Visit to Axega
After the working meeting, the government delegate and the general director of Civil Protection went to A Estrada (Pontevedra) where they toured the headquarters of the Galician Emergency Agency (AXEGA) accompanied by the general director of Emergencies and Interior of the Xunta, Santiago Villanueva.
After the tour, they held a meeting in which they addressed the collaboration between administrations to renew the National Civil Protection Strategy and analyzed the current mechanisms of response in the face of an emergency in Galicia.