The Union of Officers (UO) of the Civil Guard has assured that the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) has made "a twisted interpretation of the Waste Law", accusing them of using the Costa Teguise barracks as "a warehouse for solid waste from a private safe company". Thus, they have reported in a statement that these were "safes that had been replaced from a hotel complex", in order to use them as "custody of short weapons when agents finish their service" and thus try to "reduce the number of suicides".
That is why the UO has explained that, "given the lack of budget and the lack of elements of this type, the Captain Chief of the Lanzarote Company, sensitive to this demand, found an alternative solution in the gift of a relative who provided him with a large number of safes". That is why they have indicated in the statement that they were stored in the Costa Teguise barracks to make the "selection of those that were considered appropriate" and "discard those that were not useful". They have added that these last ones "were delivered to a waste management company", for which "the aforementioned company paid an invoice for the amount of 98€". Regarding this amount, the UO has commented that "the Captain, voluntarily, has decided to assign it to the Costa Teguise barracks for the celebration of its own events".
As for the useful safes, "they will be made available to all those agents who voluntarily wish to use them for the custody of their service weapons, thus complying with an important demand from professional associations in the area of suicide prevention", the UO has stated.
The AUGC "again questions the action of the commanders"
In this way, the UO has responded to the AUGC, of whom they have commented that "especially, they have been demanding the installation of these gun racks from the General Directorate for some time". Likewise, it has emphasized that "the safes are received by alienation, their previous owner having no intention or obligation to discard them, as denounced by the AUGC". "The inoperative safes acquire the condition of waste according to article 3 of Law 22/2011, but from the moment in which the Captain of the Lanzarote Company, its legal owner, decides to discard them", they have indicated from the Union of Officers.
For all this, the UO has affirmed that the AUGC "faithful to the maxim of fabricating great lies by making use of small truths and in a worrying show of cynicism, again questions the action of the commanders and the consequent discredit for the institution" with the accusation presented about the Costa Teguise barracks.
However, the UO wanted to congratulate the Captain of the Lanzarote Company "for his important initiative, which complies with a prevention measure in the area of suicides claimed by all professional associations". Likewise, it has shown its "perplexity" for what they have considered a "schizoid behavior of AUGC, which goes from insistently demanding the use of gun racks in its media campaigns to, subsequently, denouncing those who want to install them".
