SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 13th March (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands’ President, Fernando Clavijo, and the Minister of the Presidency, Public Administrations, Justice and Security, Nieves Lady Barreto, were present at the unveiling of twenty new patrol vehicles for the General Corps of the Canary Islands Police.
This event took place at the Adán Martín Auditorium esplanade in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with the presence of the General Director of Security, David del Pino, and the Chief Commissioner, Antonio Almenara.
The procurement of these vehicles has been overseen by the Security Ministry through financial leasing (renting), in a non-advertised negotiated procedure due to urgency. Companies in the sector were invited by the order of the councilor on 26th September 2023. The total awarded amount is 1,156,224 Euros until 31st October 2027.
With these new additions, the mobile fleet of the General Corps of the Canarian Police now stands at one hundred units, comprising both marked and plain-clothes vehicles, which also include two recently purchased transfer vans.
The twenty patrol vehicles are of the SUV type, featuring a combustion engine and equipped with screens to partition the cabin from the detainees. Ten will be assigned to the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria police headquarters, while the remaining ten will go to the Santa Cruz de Tenerife police headquarters.
