The Governing Council has approved this Monday, at the request of the Ministry of the Presidency, Public Administrations, Justice and Security, the public employment offer of the General Corps of the Canary Police, with 250 positions. This is the largest OPE in the history of the Corps since its creation in 2010 and will be executed in the next three years.
Of the total, 173 positions will be for the general system of free access, for the Basic Scale, and 77 positions will be for internal promotion, distributed as follows: 10 positions for the Senior Scale (commissioner, deputy commissioner), 24 for the Executive Scale (inspector, deputy inspector), 33 for the Basic Scale (officer) and 10 for the Optional Scale, which will be filled by professionals from the fields of Computer Science, Laboratory, Law, Journalism, Psychology and Medical Inspection.
The approval of this OPE is the previous step so that the Ministry of the Presidency can carry out the next calls for positions planned to increase the number of members of the General Corps of the Canary Police.
It should be remembered that, at the beginning of this legislature, the Canary Autonomous Police had 192 officers and after the conclusion of the first selective process of this new stage of expansion there are already 280 members. To this we must add 141 more places from a new selective process already underway and the incorporation of 12 more members from other Security Forces and Corps. Once these positions are incorporated in the first months of 2025, the General Corps of the Canary Police will have 433 agents.
The next call planned by the Ministry of the Presidency, and which is already part of the OPE approved by the Governing Council, will be for 150 positions, which are expected to be incorporated throughout 2026.
The Governing Council has also authorized the expansion, in 150 more positions, of the Catalog of Positions of the General Corps of the Canary Police that was approved in May 2023 (Decree 60/2023), which contemplated a maximum growth of the Corps to 576 positions, which limited the forecasts of the current Government of the Canary Islands.
That is why the General Budget Law of the Autonomous Community for 2024 already contemplated this expansion of the Catalog that has been approved today, with which the Canary Police will be able to grow to 726 members.
The management of the Minister of the Presidency, Nieves Lady Barreto, has allowed this year to approve the resolution that creates the structures of units within the Corps (published in the BOC of January 29, 2024).
Likewise, the agreement signed with the FECAM last April to provide reinforcement in security matters, has allowed about twenty municipalities from all over the Canary Islands to join it.
Throughout this year, two long-term devices have also been deployed in Valle Gran Rey (La Gomera), already completed, and in the Valle de Aridane (La Palma) still in force, with the coordination of the General Directorate of Security and its head, David del Pino.
Currently, the Canary Police is making a huge effort to transfer unaccompanied migrant minors to reception centers. In just a month and a half, there have been 63 transfers for the accompaniment of 323 minors.
