While in the Plenary Hall of the Santa Cruz City Council, the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, welcomed, yesterday, the new 30 police officers in training, at the gates of the Consistory, who will be his companions in the coming months, They protested the “mistreatment” that they claim to be receiving due to the refusal of Human Resources to pay the Carnival bonus, which they had been receiving since 2005, and that they are now being denied arguing that there was no Carnival in 2021.
Bermúdez presided over the formal act of appointment, as trainee agents, of the 30 applicants who have passed the competition-opposition that will allow them to join the Santa Cruz Local Police, once they have completed a mandatory training period and the stipulated practices. In total, there are 24 men and six women who have completed a selection process, which began in mid-2019, to fill 38 positions in the Capital Local Police.
This new promotion of agents must now pass a course, which will last approximately between four and five months, under the aegis of the Canary Islands Security Academy. This training will address the necessary theoretical and practical content for future police officers. If they pass this compulsory training, they will still have to cover a total of practices, quantified in 1,200 hours, but already in the Santa Cruz police force, before being formally appointed as career officials.
The mayor, accompanied by the councilors of Citizen Security and Human Resources, Evelyn Alonso and Purificación Dávila, respectively, as well as the police officers, wanted to congratulate the agents for the process.
