The island director of the Government of Spain in Lanzarote, Pedro Viera, spoke this Wednesday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to explain how the competition for agent positions in the National Police at the Arrecife Police Station has turned out.
Specifically, as La Voz reported, 51 National Police positions were offered, with 47 basic scale agents, three sub-inspectors, and one officer. Regionally, it was expanded by 290 positions for all of the Canary Islands. Of these, Viera has announced that, specifically, a total of 40 positions have become vacant as they were offered among agents already serving in the country.
However, these positions will also be available for newly appointed officials, who can access the positions and join in the months of July and August.
"There are other political groups that have wanted to attribute this increase to themselves, as if they had influence over it," the island director stated in subsequent statements to La Voz, in which he highlighted the efforts of the senator for Lanzarote, Manuel Fajardo Palarea, and the national deputy Dolores Corujo, as well as his own influence in securing these positions.
These positions are part of the Spanish Government's plan throughout the country to recover the agent positions that, according to the island director, were destroyed between 2012 and 2017 by the governments of the Popular Party.
Viera also defended on the radio program Buenos días, Lanzarote that the service provided by the National Police at the César Manrique Airport in Lanzarote "ensures that it is as optimal as possible, both for the entry and exit of passengers, especially those coming from the United Kingdom." Thus, he emphasized that "the difficulty does not have so much to do with the number of personnel," but "with the slots or with the concentration of flights that occur in a short period of time."
