The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) it demands the reinforcement of professional agents in the Islands and an increase in the allocation of vacant places for internships in the body. The Director General of the Civil GuardMaría Gámez, will visit Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today and “does so after the management’s announcement of vacancies for intern guards.” According to AUGC, this year “only 30 have been assigned to the Canary Islands out of a total of 2,201 vacancies”, which does not represent even 2% of the total and are distributed between Las Palmas, where 18 interns will be assigned temporarily, and Tenerife, with 12 agents. They will remain in the corresponding units for a year until they reach their final destination.
The Unified Association of Civil Guards indicates that it has been advising that vacancies must be filled and the personnel catalog increased and material means, which has become obsolete, and they ask María Gámez to explain these deficiencies during her visit to the Canary Islands.
In addition to the fact that 30 vacancies for the Islands “represent an affront to autonomy for being one of the most affected in the distribution”, exposes the association, there are fewer places than last year, where there were a total of 116, of which 64 places They were assigned to Las Palmas and 52 to Tenerife. Something similar happened in the previous movement of professional agents in March, where only 13 people joined in Las Palmas and nine in Tenerife, all of them from other parts of the peninsular geography, he remarks.
According to AUGC, the body lives in a continuous loss of opportunities to reinforce the staff of the units that present the most deficiencies.
“They are units that, even having the category of main posts, on numerous occasions do not have enough Civil Guards to provide a service 24 hours a day,” and this despite the fact that the population of the Archipelago increases considerably with the visit of tourists, he specifies the Asociation.
