Coalición Canaria (CC) San Bartolomé demands that the city council urgently fill the six vacant positions in the Local Police “in the face of the wave of crime that the municipality is suffering with robberies, forced cars, burning containers, etcetera, and which has reached its "maximum danger" with the recent shooting in Playa Honda”, says the nationalist municipal spokesperson David Rocío.
In this sense, Rocío denounces that for two years the mayor, Isidro Pérez, “has been announcing with great fanfare that in 2023 the staff would be improved with the incorporation of six new agents, something that we are still waiting for all citizens despite the evident increase in the feeling of insecurity that is suffered in the municipality”.
“For two decades, not only have no new Local Police positions been created in San Bartolomé, but the staff has been reduced due to retirements and despite the fact that the population has grown by more than 6,000 inhabitants”, laments the CC spokesperson, who accuses the government group of “passing the buck by not asking to recover the powers transferred to the Government of the Canary Islands since 2019 in this matter”.
This circumstance has caused “such irresponsible situations”, continues David Rocío, “as those that occurred both in the early hours of Saturday to Sunday, in which a shooting had to be lamented in Playa Honda with one injured, as on New Year's Eve, in which the municipality only had one agent on duty”.
CC San Bartolomé will ask in the next plenary session held by the Corporation for the appearance of the mayor “to give explanations about the reasons why overtime is not being carried out by the Local Police”, and will demand “the recovery of powers for the creation of new positions as has been done in other municipalities on the Island”, concludes Rocío.
