Around 11,000 national police officers and some 2,200 civil guards, to whom will be added personnel from the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Canary Islands police, and local police agents who will form the security detail for the Pope's visit to Spain between June 6 and 12.
A little more than a month before the arrival of Leo XIV in Spain - to Madrid, Catalonia, and the Canary Islands -, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, presided this Monday over the general coordination meeting between all departments, agencies, and institutions that will be involved in the security detail.
An operation that has four phases: the preliminary, initiated since the visit was confirmed; a preventive one, which will begin at midnight on May 31; the alert phase, from June 1, and finally the critical phase, which will take place from hours before the Pope sets foot on Spanish soil until he leaves from the Canary Islands on June 12.
Marlaska has emphasized that the operation is designed to ensure that this visit "is a success," given that Spain and the Spanish police forces are a "benchmark" in security matters after the effectiveness demonstrated in complex events such as the NATO Summit held in Madrid in 2022, the more than 22,000 events held on the occasion of the Presidency of the European Union in 2023, or the UN summit in Seville last July.
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