The Private Security Workers Union STSP has filed a complaint against the Civil Guard barracks of Costa Teguise for the installation of unapproved security material and non-compliance with Law 5/2014, on Private Security, as reported in a statement by the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC). The complaint is based on "the participation of the Civil Guard Corps in the approval of the security measures that must be met by the armories of the headquarters, delegations or branches of private security companies," they added.
In this sense, in the complaint the STSP has indicated that "since August 18, 2011 no safe manufacturer can market unapproved material, neither to individuals nor to the Civil Guard." "So we do not understand why the Civil Guard, the same one that participates in the Joint Commissions, the same one that issues the suitability reports required by the competent authorities to approve the passive and active security measures of the armories in obligated establishments, the same one that verifies that these security measures comply with the regulatory requirements imposed by the legislator, resorts to unapproved scrap metal material 'because there is no money'" the union stated in the complaint. Likewise, he pointed out that "the Civil Guard, as a user of security products, must demand from manufacturers the correct approval (testing/certification) of the armories/safes they install."
"While in the private security sector, establishments are required to have physical and electronic security measures and have to make a costly investment of thousands of euros, in the Civil Guard armories/safes can be installed, failing to comply with all the requirements" included in the regulations, the STSP pointed out in the complaint.
After the public complaint from the AUGC
The situation on which this legal action is based arises from the public complaint that the AUGC delegation in Las Palmas made on April 17, when it reported that "it had informed the General Chief of the Civil Guard in the Canary Islands and the Colonel Chief of Las Palmas that the official facilities of the Civil Guard in Costa Teguise are being used as a solid waste warehouse." Specifically, the AUGC reported that "the parking lots, corridors and garages located in said Civil Guard Barracks had been used since February for the storage of innumerable safes of those used in hotel complexes."
After the public complaint made by AUGC, the Union of Officers (UO) of the Civil Guard rejected these accusations and stated "that the safes came from a gift made by a relative to the captain chief, so that they could serve as an armory in the barracks," according to the AUGC. Faced with this, this association expressed "its astonishment at a management that is carried out in the Civil Guard with the knowledge of the entire chain of command, giving rise to justifications that are difficult to believe and unethical behaviors, omitting to the citizens that according to current regulations (order INT/985/2005) it is the Director General who can accept donations of movable property."
"It is unacceptable that a captain makes arrangements for the transfer of safes to a Civil Guard Barracks, and later justifies that as the legal owner of the safes he decides to use these boxes as armories (not approved) on his own initiative, and also unilaterally decides to sell part of the safes as scrap metal, and then also "voluntarily" deposit what was obtained from the sale of the waste at the disposal of the barracks to cover representation expenses, when it is precisely the Civil Guard, the institution that triples the amount in the General State Budgets in protocol expenses compared to the National Police," they assured from the AUGC. For all this, from AUGC they announced that "a reserved information has been requested for the total clarification of these facts and to determine if there are irregularities in the action of the aforementioned captain of Lanzarote." "Now, the formalization of this complaint by the Private Security Workers Union (intersindical-stsp) adds a new chapter to this dark matter," added the association of Civil Guards.
