The staff of the Border Inspection Posts (BIP) will be reinforced in the Canary Islands with six interim officials, one of them for Lanzarote, from the next few days or, "at the latest", at the beginning of December in view of the Christmas campaign, the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands reported this Wednesday.
The objective is to improve the service of these inspection points, after analyzing the situation in which the delegate of the Government in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, together with the general secretary and the director of the Functional Area of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Government Delegation, Juan José Santana and Luis Ortín, respectively, are located.
According to the note, three interim officials will be assigned to the island of Tenerife, two to Gran Canaria (one of them through the renewal of their interim status), and one more to Lanzarote.
"We are very aware of the situation that exists in the entry of goods to the Canary Islands and even more aware of the importance of the controls that our officials at the inspection posts carry out" to guarantee health, said the delegate of the Government in the Canary Islands.
Pestana said that "therefore, and from the recognition of the effort they carry out" the professionals of the BIP and the needs of the companies" the staff will be reinforced in view of a time, Christmas, of particular intensity in trade and in the transport of goods.
