The Police Headquarters of the Canary Islands reinforces its staff with the incorporation of 143 police-students of the basic scale, who for a year will carry out their internship period in the different police stations of the islands, 79 in the province of Las Palmas and 64 in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The acts of incorporation have been presided over in the province of Las Palmas by the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana and the Superior Chief of Police in the Canary Islands, Rafael Martínez López and in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife by the sub-delegate of the Government in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jesús Javier Plata Vera, and the Provincial Chief of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote.
The police officers belonging to the XXXVII promotion of the basic scale, during this 12-month period, will serve in the different police units in order to complete the period of theoretical training received at the Avila National Police School. There they have received training in different subjects: criminal and procedural law, investigation, scientific police, languages, personal defense and police shooting, among others.
They will serve in the provincial, local and district police stations, joining the rest of the national police assigned to the different units. They will carry out the work normally carried out by judicial police groups, citizen security, complaint offices, information, immigration and scientific police. During the internship period they will be assigned a tutor belonging to the executive scale who will be ultimately responsible for their training.
In the province of Las Palmas, 79 student police officers will join, of which 36 will do so in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 12 in Telde, 10 in Maspalomas, 8 in Puerto del Rosario and 13 in Arrecife.
On the other hand, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, out of a total of 64 interns, of which 25 will be incorporated in the capital, 10 in the Puerto de La Cruz-Los Realejos police station, 8 in Santa Cruz de la Palma, 9 in La Laguna and 12 in the South Tenerife police station.