The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today conveyed a public gratitude to the National Police in Ourense for the “thousands of services” carried out in the last four decades to guarantee citizen security and the progress of the capital of the province: “Thank you for 40 years of great operations, including thousands of humanitarian aid, countless documentations and procedures, training activities for minors and seniors, police coordination meetings, welcomes and farewells.”
Pedro Blanco today presided over the commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the National Police Station of Ourense, which was also attended by the subdelegate of the Government in the province, Eladio Santos. In his speech he had a memory for the years that saw the birth of this building “years of vertiginous changes, of modernization of Galicia, at all levels: political, administrative and cultural”, in which the new Commissariat was seen as an example of the new National Police in Spain, modern, open, democratic”.
He also stressed that the Ourense Police Station was the first to unify the services and personnel of the Superior Corps of Galicia and the National Police being “the germ, and perhaps also an encouragement, to say the least, of the current configuration of the National Police in Galicia”.
Of the building he said that “it continues to be a reference of civil architecture while its functionality and operability remain unchanged” and he stressed that “it represented a qualitative leap in the quality of the public service provided by the National Police to this city of Ourense and in the working conditions of the police and administrative staff that until then were dispersed throughout the city”.
Commemorative event
The commemoration, which coincides with the bicentenary of the creation of the National Police Force, served to review the history of the building through a video with witnesses of the people who were working in it in recent decades. A commemorative plaque of the anniversary was also discovered and various distinctions were given to retired police officers as well as graphic humorist Xosé Lois González Vázquez.
The celebration also included the Superior Chief of Police of Galicia, Ramón Gómez Nieto and Commissioner Cástor Gómez; the President of the Provincial Council of Ourense, Luis Menor; the territorial delegate of the Xunta in Ourense, Manuel Pardo, and other local and provincial authorities. I would like to point out that the sub-delegates of the Government in the previous province, such as Emilio González, Roberto Castro or Camilo Ocampo, were also present.
Police station
The building of the police station of the National Police of Ourense was inaugurated in June 1984, being delegate of the Government in Galicia Domingo García-Sabell and civilian governor in Ourense, Mariano Sanz. The building was taken as a model for the execution of other police buildings in Spain due to its distribution and materials used in the construction. At that time it unified the services that were distributed throughout the city, including in the Government’s own Subdelegation, which resulted in an improvement in the public service and the working conditions of the police and administrative people who were stationed in the city.