La Rioja will reach 1,642 members of the National Police and Civil Guard, thanks to the gradual incorporation into their police stations or barracks during these summer days of the latest promotions of agents who have passed the initial training process in the academies of each body.
The organic growth of the staff of the National Police and Civil Guard has been possible through the five successive public employment offers convened on the joint initiative of the Ministry of Finance and Public Function and the Ministry of the Interior, all of them with replacement rates greater than one hundred percent.
This call for proposals with a number of places offered much higher than the number of places to be covered has allowed a total of 179 net places to be recovered in five years, which represents an increase of 12.2% since 2017.
However, during the previous seven years, there had been a sustained decline in agents, with a total loss of 238 troops between 2011 and 2017, a process that has been practically reversed in five years.
Thus, the number of troops in La Rioja in 2017 fell to 1,463 National Police and Civil Guard agents compared to 1,701 in 2011.
Evolution in Spain
In Spain, the figure will reach 156,453 National Police and Civil Guard troops this summer. This was announced on Thursday by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, during the presentation in Malaga of the deployment of the State Security Forces and Corps designed for Operation Summer 2023.
Since 2018, 14,381 net places have been recovered throughout the country, a figure that combines the 13,077 troops that were lost in the period 2012-2017.
The previous record high in Spain had been set in December 2011, when the State Security Forces and Corps registered a total of 155,149 troops. From that date, the National Police and Civil Guard squads experienced a sharp reduction process that led to the two squads totalling only 142,072 in December 2017.
With the incorporation these days of the students of the XXXII Promotion of the Basic National Police Scale to their destination police stations, the staff of this body grows to 74,458 personnel. With regard to the Civil Guard, once the students of the latest promotions from the Academy of Baeza (Jaén) and the College of Young Guards of Valdemoro (Madrid) arrive at the barracks on July 3, the staff will reach 81,995 members.