- “The Government of Spain has promoted in recent years a package of positive action measures with the objective of reaching at least 40 percent of women in promotions of access to both bodies before the year 2030,” he said.
- The government delegate has held a meeting with about twenty women of the Civil Guard and National Police personnel in the Region of Murcia
- “Both bodies must be a cornerstone of the society they serve, and that is why it is necessary to guarantee the real and effective equality of women and men in both organizations,” he said.
March 7, 2026. The government delegate has assured today that the Ministry of the Interior has redoubled in recent years its commitment to the advancement of equality in the State Security Forces and Bodies with the objective of reaching at least 40% of women in access promotions in the National Police and the Civil Guard before the year 2030.
“Both bodies are and must be a cornerstone of the society they serve, and that is why it is necessary to guarantee the real and effective equality of women and men in the National Police and the Civil Guard,” he said during a meeting with about twenty women of both bodies held in the Government Delegation.
Francisco Lucas has thanked them for their vocation of public service and has conveyed to them that their talent and commitment bring to both bodies a special sensitivity and ability when planning work or developing research.
The government delegate recalled that this year marks 47 years since the incorporation of women into the National Police and 38 years in the case of the Civil Guard, and that this inalienable principle of equality will generate fairer, more efficient, closer organizations and, therefore, “will translate into more just and prosperous societies.”
“Since the approval of the First Plan of Equality of the Civil Guard, 2,617 women have been incorporated into the Corps, which represents 11% of the staff, an increase much higher than that achieved before the plan was implemented,” he said.
Regarding the National Police, Lucas added that since 2023 it has been operating under its First Equality Plan, which includes strategic measures of access and promotion, conciliation or protection, which, according to him, begins to translate into figures that represent 19% of female presence in the institution.
The government delegate has stressed the need for this effective equality to materialize and consolidate at higher scales, which is where the greatest difference manifests itself.
In this sense, the agents of both bodies who participated in the event have agreed that the situation has improved a lot in recent years, that they have always felt the support of their colleagues and superiors and that they have not had limits or brakes in their professional development.
Even so, they have also agreed and asked the government delegate that it is necessary to be able to reconcile professional promotion without having to give up being mothers or remaining with the family, since almost always an promotion involves change of destination, city and province.
The government delegate has pledged to work so that they do not have to choose between ascending or being mothers, and has said that he will submit to Madrid a proposal to study a legislative reform that allows to reconcile both circumstances.
“I believe that a reform of this nature would make it compatible to be able to ascend without having to give up being mothers or have to move away from the family nucleus,” he said.
The event was also attended by the colonel of the 5th Zone of the Civil Guard, Francisco Pulido, and the Superior Chief of Police, Ignacio del Olmo, who reviewed the situation of women in both bodies and valued their talent, training and growing role in their respective organizations.
Del Olmo highlighted that in the last promotion of the executive scale at the School of Ávila, 51% are women. “That means that within a generation, most of the leadership will be women,” she said.
For its part, Pulido has detailed that the female civil guards in the Region of Murcia are present in all the regions and units, and has explained that when in 1988 the first 197 civil guards entered, nobody imagined the evolution and modernization that it was going to mean for the institution.
Finally, María José Navarro, Secretary General of the Government Delegation, and María Luisa Barreda, head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the institution, spoke.
Navarro has also highlighted the high presence of women in positions of responsibility in many agencies of the General Administration of the State in the Region of Murcia, and Luisa Barreda the capacity, sensitivity and added value that women police and civil guards contribute in their attention to the victims of gender violence.
