The Teguise City Council held this Thursday the ceremony of awarding official badges for permanence in active service in the Local Police Force of the municipality. This event recognizes the special dedication and commitment in the fulfillment of their duties of those municipal agents who have developed 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of public service.
The mayor of Teguise, Olivia Duque, said at the event that "aspiring to have a safer municipality is not a utopia, because it is certainly an objective of this government team, because you are one of those little legs that if they fall short make the table limp and more when one of the indicators of quality of life that citizens value most is precisely security and order."
Duque, who also had a memory for the retired police officers, "who with their professionalism have contributed to making Teguise a safe municipality", has encouraged the agents to feel "proud of yourselves, and of those values that make you social references such as courage, rectitude and discipline".
For his part, the head of the Local Police of Teguise, Oscar Santos, has encouraged his colleagues to continue working with the professionalism that characterizes them, and "although we run risks, even that of losing our lives" he said that it is a profession that "makes us proud, because in addition to ensuring strict compliance with the Law, it implies a closeness with the daily life of the neighbor".
The event was led by the official chronicler of Teguise, Francisco Hernández, who made a historical tour of the evolution of this profession, referring, for example, to the guards who acted in the 17th century and who had different functions: the chief guard (who collected taxes), the meat guard (responsible for livestock and marking its price and weight in the market) and the residence guard who was like a registrar.
In the specific context of Teguise, Hernández mentioned Miguel Hernández Bonilla "who was the first uniformed municipal police officer". According to his words, this municipal worker denounced the City Council for charging 22 pesetas a month. His claims bore fruit and he would go on to charge 800 pesetas a year.
Military commanders and other State Security Forces and Corps, as well as representatives of Civil Protection of Teguise, attended the recognition ceremony.
