The mayor of Teguise, regional deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa and candidate for the Island Council, Oswaldo Betancort, has asked the Government Delegate to urge the Ministry of the Interior to increase the number of permanent positions for Civil Guard officers in tourist locations such as Costa Teguise, Puerto del Carmen or Playa Blanca.
"The tourist municipalities par excellence in Lanzarote (Teguise, Tías and Yaiza), are experiencing moments of occupation and influx of visitors that place us in the top positions in the ranking of profitability and tourist preferences in all of the Canary Islands and Spain", says Betancort.
"This is good news for the sector, since the pre-covid occupation figures are being recovered and even exceeded, while the profitability indicators improve, but this positive trend for the island's economy entails an allocation of State Security Forces and Corps according to the circumstances and, for this reason, I am addressing the Government Delegation in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands to urge the Ministry of the Interior to obtain more permanent staff, and not just passing through, to ensure citizen security in accordance with the municipal local police, the General Corps of the Canarian Police, and other agents of the Spanish State, such as the National Police."
In this sense, Oswaldo Betancort reiterates that “this service must be provided on a professional and permanent basis, especially in the population centers that receive the greatest influx of visitors, and not only reinforced in the summer season. The demand is fair and necessary, since, once again, islands like Lanzarote and La Graciosa do not have the rights and public services according to their contribution to the economic wealth to the Canarian community and the State as a whole", he argues.
Finally, Betancort joins the demands made by the Spanish Association of Civil Guards (AEGC) in terms of infrastructure, human and technical resources to address so many open fronts and that they have been demanding for some time "units for service to the citizen that are properly regulated and do not imply an imbalance and a subtraction of citizen security personnel without any increase in staff, a protest to which is added the lack of detachment of the permanent maritime service in Lanzarote despite the continuous arrival of boats to the island", he pointed out.