The Canary Islands Government has promised this Tuesday to agents of the Canary Police that before the end of the legislature, the "deployment of the body in the eight Canary Islands" will take place, starting with Lanzarote and La Gomera, where they are already working with the councils to do so.
This was expressed this Tuesday by the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, and the Minister of the Presidency, Justice, Security and Public Administrations, Nieves Lady Barreto, during a visit to the Canary Islands Security Academy and the headquarters of the Regional Police, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
During the tour, Clavijo and Barreto were able to see how 110 agents of the Autonomous Police and Local Police are training together, in addition to checking the operation of the shooting range, the canine unit, the specialists in computer crimes or the drones, which are used to act in fires, large events, rescue work or adverse weather phenomena.
"I believe that one of the most precious assets in the Canary Islands is our security and having a powerful body deployed on the islands helps to maintain something that is highly valued by those who visit us and of course by the citizens in general," said Clavijo, who highlighted the "degree of professionalism of the training", which he described as intense and which guarantees that the agent who takes office does so "with all the guarantees." In addition, he stated that the training "should not be limited to those first years" of the agents but should be "continuous over time".
During the visit, agents of the corps conveyed to Clavijo the need to "improve the shooting range", used by both the Civil Guard and members of local police from other municipalities, so that it is compatible with the use of larger caliber weapons, as it is currently only equipped to practice with weapons of a caliber of nine millimeters. In her statements, the Minister of the area, Nieves Lady Barreto, explained that the Academy was created at the time to "train the agents and continue to expand their numbers".
Barreto has put the number of agents of the Canary Police at 278 and has recalled that a call for 61 places is planned for this year and that, in addition, in the 2024 accounts there is another item for another 100 additional places.
