The Deputy of Ciudadanos (Cs) for the province of Las Palmas, Saúl Ramírez, has asked the Government of Spain this Wednesday to report "on whether or not the Costa Teguise Barracks is being used as a waste deposit" and has asked to clarify which head of the Civil Guard authorized this action, how many agents participated and how many hours of work were spent placing the safes.
Saúl Ramírez has forwarded this question to the Government after the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) in Las Palmas reported last April that the Costa Teguise barracks was storing safes for a private company; which was later denied by the Union of Officers (UO), which assured that the boxes were given by a relative to the chief captain so that they could serve as custody of the short weapons within a measure to reduce the number of suicides of agents. After that, the Private Security Workers Union (STSP) reported said barracks to the Ministry of the Interior for non-compliance with security regulations in relation to the installation of safes as armories.
For all these reasons, the Cs deputy has also asked the Government about "the use that is being given to the safes that have been located in the aforementioned facilities", assuring that there are several media outlets that have reported that "despite being destined for armories, it seems that agents of the benemérita are not allowed to use them." In this sense, Ramírez has asked about "the type, brand and model of the safes, the opening system, and whether or not they have been approved to store the agents' firearms."
Ramírez has explained that there are even complaints that "some of these boxes could have even been sold as scrap metal, and the money raised from them could have been used to celebrate an event", in relation to the explanations given by the Union of Civil Guard Officers regarding this controversy. For this reason, the deputy has asked "whether or not it is true that some of these boxes have been sold as scrap metal", and if so, he has requested information on "what purpose those funds have been used for, whether there is compatibility to carry out the work of Civil Guard and scrap metal sales."
Likewise, Ramírez has requested information on "the management of the economic resources of the aforementioned barracks, and whether or not they receive contributions from companies or individuals, and if the answer is affirmative, he has demanded the purpose for which it is intended and how this information is transferred to the Treasury."
