All parliamentary groups have supported this Wednesday asking the Government of the Canary Islands to promote the deployment of the Autonomous Police on the eight islands of the archipelago and to assume its cost, in collaboration with the town councils, on the non-capital islands.
This request is part of a non-law proposal defended by the Nationalist group deputy Mario Cabrera, who has asked the regional Executive to improve the collaboration agreement with the town councils in order to assume the cost of the deployment of the autonomous police under equal conditions among all the islands.
He has also asked that the deployment of the Canarian Police be promoted on the eight islands in collaboration with the local police and the rest of the State security forces and bodies, in order to plan and redistribute all police personnel to guarantee citizen security in all the municipalities of the Canary Islands.
In addition, the proposal requests to convene a coordination table between the autonomous police of the Canary Islands, the local police and the rest of the State security forces to plan and distribute personnel of the autonomous police on the eight islands according to the needs of each municipality and the personnel available to face the summer and winter tourist season.
Another demand is to demand that the State provide the necessary personal and material resources to the State security forces in the Canary Islands, updating the staff to respond to current needs, especially in tourist areas such as Fuerteventura, where the provision "is clearly insufficient".
Mario Cabrera has also indicated that the forecast is to have 300 agents on the staff of the autonomous police in 2022 and there is a commitment from the State to finance their deployment from that figure, which could achieve the objective of expanding the body "with the goal of 1,700 troops, as had been planned when the activity of the General Corps of the Canarian Police began in 2010".
Cabrera has alluded to the fact that there are citizen security problems in Fuerteventura, where there is also a lack of local police, Civil Guard and National Police officers "even before the summer tourist season has begun", so in his opinion, this possibility should be taken into account by the Government of the Canary Islands.
"The objective must be to guarantee the safety of the population, both residents and tourists, with sufficient personnel and therefore it is necessary for the Government of the Canary Islands to plan and manage the coordination of the Canarian police with the State security forces and bodies," he stressed.
For this, the deployment of the autonomous body on the eight islands is important, since right now it is only in the capital islands, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, permanently, with which the deployment of the autonomous body can allow to cover at least partially the lack of personnel and redistribute both the resources of the autonomous police and those of the Civil Guard and National Police "covering shortcomings in public safety where they are most needed."
