The Arrecife Police Station will now have thirteen new National Police agents in training.
The Superior Headquarters of the Police of the Canary Islands has reinforced its staff with the incorporation of 143 police-students of the basic scale, who for one year will carry out their internship period in the different police stations of the islands, 79 in the province of Las Palmas and 64 in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The incorporation ceremonies have been presided over in the province of Las Palmas by the delegate of the Government in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, and the superior chief of Police in the Canary Islands, Rafael Martínez López, and in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife by the sub-delegate of the Government in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jesús Javier Plata Vera, and the Provincial Chief of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote.
The police officers belonging to the XXXVII promotion of the basic scale, during this period of 12 months, will serve in the different police units in order to complete the period of theoretical training received at the National Police School of Ávila. There they have received training in various subjects: criminal and procedural law, investigation, scientific police, languages, personal defense and police shooting, among others.
They will serve in the provincial, local and district police stations, integrating with the rest of the national police officers assigned to the different units. They will carry out the work that is usually carried out by the groups of judicial police, citizen security, complaints offices, information, immigration and scientific police. During the internship period, they will be assigned a tutor belonging to the executive scale who will be ultimately responsible for their training.
In the province of Las Palmas, 79 student police officers will be incorporated, of which 36 will do so in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 12 in Telde, 10 in Maspalomas, 8 in Puerto del Rosario and 13 in Arrecife.
On the other hand, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, of the total of 64 agents in practice, of which 25 will be incorporated in the capital, 10 in the police station of Puerto de La Cruz-Los Realejos, 8 in Santa Cruz de la Palma, 9 in La Laguna and 12 in the Southern Tenerife police station.