The Secretary of State for Security, Aina Calvo, presented on Monday the project of the future National Police Station in Maó, which will be tendered in 2025 and whose works will begin in the second quarter of 2026. “It is a sign of the commitment of the Ministry of the Interior to the modernization of security infrastructures, to the well-being of professionals and to the citizenship of Balears,” he said at the event held in Maó.
Calvo highlighted that the future building, with a planned investment of 13 million euros, will have modern spaces adapted to people with reduced mobility, specific areas for victim care and state-of-the-art technology to reinforce the tasks of research, prevention and management.
The Secretary of State thanked the mayor of Maó, present at the event, for the collaboration of the town council for the cession of the plot in which the new building will be erected. “This work is not a privilege, but a necessity and an outstanding debt to the island of Menorca. We all win: police and neighbors, institutions and the thousands of people who visit the town,” said Calvo.
During his speech, he highlighted “the professionalism, vocation of service and effectiveness” of the 122 men and 50 women who make up the staff of the National Police in the city and who have managed to reduce the crime rate by 12 points in the year 2024, to 15 points below the national average.
The event, held in the Hearing Room of the Claustre del Carme, was also attended by the government delegate in Illes Balears, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal; the general director of the Police, Francisco Pardo; the mayor of Maó, Héctor Pons; and the president of the Society of Penitentiary Infrastructures and Equipment and State Security (SIEPSE), Sofía Hernanz.
A sustainable building
The future police station of Maó will be built on the land ceded by the city council, with a new design and a distribution of workspaces of great functionality so that all police units can carry out their work in the best conditions of operation and efficiency, offering comfort, as well as a correct organization of the accesses and the rooms of attention to the public.
The building consists of a single volume of five floors (one floor below ground and four floors above), alternating enclosed spaces with open terraces to provide greater permeability to the whole.
The project complies with the sustainability certification standards established by the independent Green Building Council Spain (GBCe), with the aim of obtaining the certification of construction of Almost Zero Energy Consumption Building (EECN).
Visit to the Ciutadella Barracks
After the presentation in Maó, Aina Calvo also visited the headquarters of the Civil Guard in Ciutadella to get to know first-hand the energy efficiency works carried out in residential and office spaces, which have allowed to achieve energy savings of at least 30 percent in primary energy consumption.
The €1.4 million project, mostly funded by the Next Generation EU funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, has had a direct impact on thermal comfort and reduced energy consumption through action on the building envelope.
Among other interventions, external thermal insulation works (SATE) have been carried out on facades, improvement of roofs and forgings, replacement of carpentry and glazing, installation of awnings to reduce sunlight, placement of photovoltaic solar panels and replacement of luminaires by LED technology.
The Ministry of the Interior has also made improvements in accessibility and urbanization, through the structural and aesthetic rehabilitation of terraces, balconies and outdoor areas, the installation of renewable energy sources and the replacement of inefficient lighting systems.
