Lanzarote will finally have agents of the Autonomous Police (Canarian Police) by 2025, fifteen years after its creation. "There will be Canarian Police on the non-capital islands," as announced this Thursday in an interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, by the General Director of Studies, Training and Research in Public Security, Juan Ramón Rodríguez Marín.
The Government of the Canary Islands has opened a call for 141 police officers who will be able to be on the streets from April 2025, Rodríguez specified. In addition, the number will increase towards 2026, when another 150 positions will be added around the same time to belong to the General Corps of the Autonomous Police. "I am already planning the selective process of public offer in which they will take office in April or May 2026," he revealed. A measure that means that "the Canarian Police expands to 560 its positions" for those two years, Rodríguez reported.
Rodríguez has encouraged the people of Lanzarote to apply for the positions, "a young person from Lanzarote who has a vocation and has been held back from aspiring because they have to leave the island, today has an opportunity they have never had before."
The selection of positions will be conditioned based on the qualifications that each admitted person obtains in the examinations. "Each person will be able to choose the island they prefer and are interested in going to based on the grade they get," he pointed out. It should be noted that in terms of administrative points "mobility will be easier between some islands and others," he added.
He revealed that this is a necessary and demanded request by the Canarians. "One of the political objectives of this Government is fulfilled, which is to deploy the Canarian Police throughout all the islands." An expansion achieved with "more human and material resources" and sought by the people of Lanzarote for some time. "Just by people seeing police on the street, things already change," he communicated.
In addition, Rodríguez assures that they are "working with the city councils to assess integrating the new agents within the local police stations." Although for the moment they are "waiting to see how the requests flow with the city councils," he pointed out.
