The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, stressed today that the incorporation of the new National Police Commissioner of Santiago de Compostela is the latest example of the commitment to strengthen the means and staff assumed by the Government for the National Police in Galicia. No act of taking over Nuria Palacios as the new head of this station, Pedro Blanco meant that this appointment closes a month of January in which the Government incorporated three new National Police Commissioners in Galicia and in what put into service a new Police and Customs Cooperation Center in Tui: “the best sign of the commitment we made from the Government of Spain with the National Police: more personnel and better endowments,” he said.
Pedro Blanco presided in Santiago the act of taking office of the new commissioner together with the mayor of the city, Goretti Sanmartín; the subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas; and the Superior Chief of Police of Galicia, Pedro Pacheco, among other authorities.
In his speech, the delegate reviewed the progress of the Ministry of the Interior in which it respects the National Police in Galicia, the result “of a double economic and training effort”. In the template, Pedro Blanco indicated that Galicia currently has 3,400 national police, about 200 in Santiago, thanks to the public employment policy deployed by this Government: “a huge effort, to recover years of losses of troops in the State Security Forces”. And he recalled that since 2018 the Ministry of the Interior convened 18,300 National Police places.
Along with the staff, Pedro Blanco focused on improving the facilities, “with investments that also benefit this Police Station.” Thus, he said that the new offices located in the building rehabilitated by the Ministry of the Interior are already operational a few meters from the current Police Station, and from which he said: “will result in the improvement of the public service provided by the National Police Force in this city.”
New Commissioner
The government delegate congratulated the new Chief Commissioner of Santiago, Nuria Palacios, who stressed that “beyond the historical fact that a woman occupies this responsibility for the first time in the capital of Galicia, it is a very deserved recognition a brilliant career in the National Police Force”. From her first days at the helm, she pointed out the open and dynamic nature of the new commissioner, and congratulated all the staff for the latest police operations “that brought tranquility to Compostela merchants and citizens.”
She closed her speech by transferring the new commissioner to the responsibility of ensuring coexistence in the city of Santiago “which is, above all, welcoming”, to which she added the “guarantee in the exercise of rights and freedoms, the protection of women who suffer from gender violence, and the strengthening of the values that make this capital unique”.