SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 17 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The senator for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has denounced the “opacity” of the Ministry of the Interior regarding the increase in the staff of State security forces and bodies at airports announced last June for the summer months due to the forecast of the recovery in the number of air operations after the lifting of the pandemic restrictions and the control of the arrival of British tourists.
The nationalist senator criticized having asked “up to three times the number of troops assigned to the airports with the largest tourist influx of the Islands, of the 500 police officers that the Ministry itself announced would increase for 12 airports, including those of Gran Canaria, Tenerife Sur , Lanzarote and Fuerteventura; however, Interior’s response is nothing more than a copy and paste of the press release without any other details”.
Fernando Clavijo argued “the lack of respect for the work of the Senate and the contempt of the Ministry of the Interior for the control tasks that constitute one of the responsibilities we have as senators.”
In this way, the nationalist senator assured that the Ministry has not answered any of his questions, including the one related to the number of troops of the 500 announced police assigned to Canarian airports or the status of the National Police staff. in each of the airport terminals, indicating the percentage of coverage of each of them and the number of vacancies, as well as the police stations of origin assigned to the Canarian airports specified by islands and how this measure would affect the existing templates in each of the Canarian police stations.
However, the senator insisted, “the answer to all these questions is always the same: the content of the press release announcing the reinforcement of 500 agents at the 12 Spanish airports with the highest air traffic for the summer months due to the increase in air traffic.
For Fernando Clavijo, “the lack of transparency, in addition to being a recurring practice of this Government, is a way of hiding its constant non-compliance and the deficit that, historically, the staff of the Security Corps and Forces in the Islands drag”.
For this reason, he announced that he will continue to demand access to information “in order to meet the needs of what are strategic infrastructures such as airports for the Islands, not only in the tourist field, but in the day-to-day life of canaries and canaries”.
