The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, presided this Friday over the inauguration of the nine new agents of the Local Police. The act, where the young agents have taken oath, took place in the plenary hall of the capital's City Council.
The mayor of the city has welcomed the agents who from now on are part of the staff of the Local Police, "a body that is being characterized in recent months by its great modernization and increase of technical means and police cars."
Yonathan de León, who is also the highest head of the Local Police in the capital of Lanzarote, has detailed that these nine new officials will officially begin their activity once they finish the internship period, with a course at the Canary Islands Security Academy, which is mandatory, and will begin from next Monday.
The oath ceremony was attended in the plenary hall by several spokespersons of the political groups present in the Municipal Corporation, heads of different Areas of the Local Police of Arrecife, military authorities, councilors of the Municipal Government group and opposition, and direct relatives of the new agents.
The accidental secretary of the Arrecife City Council was calling the new agents, according to the order established in their approval orders of the recent oppositions to enter the Corps, and showed their oath or promise on a copy of the Spanish Constitution.
Yonathan de León Machín has welcomed this moment, together with the Municipal Government group that he presides over - present in the plenary hall - and has stressed that "the increase in the staff will allow Arrecife to remain a safe capital, with more presence of the agents in the street, and especially a new deployment in the neighborhoods of the city."
For this, "the Local Police will rely on the great increase in technical means and new vehicle equipment - recently presented, and that is making the Arrecife Local Police Corps have state-of-the-art vehicles, which make it among the most prepared in the Canary Islands," said the mayor.
After the act, where all the agents were congratulated, the mayor Yonathan de León confirmed to the media that his objective is for the staff to reach 100 agents in the next three years.
The agents will officially begin their duties once the internship period is over. In the act, eight agents signed the incorporation records, and the ninth will do so in the next few days given the agent's situation.
The Local Police of Arrecife, within the modernization process, has recently opened a new police headquarters, a new video control unit with cameras deployed in sensitive areas of the capital of Lanzarote, has 11 new police vehicles, and five motorcycles. In addition to the means, the figure of the tutor agent has been deployed in the environments of the schools of Arrecife, and has professionalized the Drone Unit, among other important improvements for the police force.
