The president of the Canarian Coalition (CC), Claudina Morales, denounced this Wednesday that the latest data published by the Ministry of the Interior in the Official Gazette of the General Courts reveal that 1,252 positions of the staff of the Civil Guard and the National Police in the Canary Islands are vacant.
The data, corresponding to 2009, indicate that 16.2 percent of the staff of the State Security Forces and Corps in the Archipelago are vacant, according to figures published by the Interior Ministry in the Congress gazette.
In the case of the Civil Guard, the catalog of jobs amounts to 3,799 troops, with 3,335 positions filled, so there are 464 vacancies.
The catalog of active duty personnel of the National Police Force in the province of Las Palmas was, in 2009, of 2,175 troops and the number of troops in active duty 1,747, with a total of 428 vacancies, while in Santa Cruz de Tenerife it was of 1,740 troops and the number of troops in active duty 1,380, adding, therefore, 360 vacancies.
After comparing the data, Morales demands the PSC-PSOE in a statement that "with the same force that they criticize the implementation of the Autonomous Police, they demand that the State Government fill the vacancies" and announces that CC will present a battery of initiatives in the Senate and the Congress to demand that the Ministry of the Interior fill the "high number of unfilled positions that exist in the Archipelago".
ACN Press
