The south of Tenerife will have agents from the Civil Guard in practices in their different commands and main posts. Of the latter, that of Playa de las Américas (Arona), the most populated municipality in the region, also. Specifically, the latter will receive a civil guard to reinforce security in the summer period, in which more personnel of the Armed Institute are in a situation of rest and in which, in addition, more displacements take place due to the holidays from the North to the South. All this according to what DIARIO DE AVISOS was able to know and confirmed the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC).
For now, the agent I had not arrived yet Tuesday to his post because he had been sent to La Palma, an island that suffers, like the rest of the Canary Islands, the manpower shortageaccording to sources familiar with the situation in which the templates find themselves.
The situation of lack of troops is endemic and, in fact, political leaders of all stripes, with some nuances and others, agreed yesterday to request some catalogs and some calls for positions that reflect the reality of an area of the Island that its population has multiplied and that it requires stability in the staff of the State Security Forces and Corps, something that, due to their own characteristics, trainee agents cannot do, as they leave at the end of their training.
Both the general in charge of the Canary Islands Zone, Juan Hernández, and the sub-delegate of the Government in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Javier Plata, complied last Tuesday with an act that is not new: the reception of trainee agents assigned to the western province. In this case, a total of 31 of the 66 that correspond to the Canary Islands. The other 35 were presented to the Government delegate, Anselmo Pestana, and will go to the province of Las Palmas.
However, the southern zone of Tenerife will come up against, for yet another year, a situation of endemic shortage of trainee agents assigned to this region to strengthen a workforce already depleted and impoverished by the years in which the replacement rate and that, although it has partially recovered, it has not done so strongly enough.
Only 9 of those 31 guards will go to the command posts and posts in the region. And, of the nine, only one to the main post of Playa de las Américas, a town located in the most populous municipality in the South, Arona, with an important tourist area, attended mainly by the National Police, and to which they travel on these dates thousands of people to spend vacations and holidays.
The catalog numbers eighty agents needed
The case of Playa de las Américas is especially significant because the situation has always been deficient. The catalog that establishes the Civil Guard agents that you need, has as many years as the changes the population of Arona has undergone. Since this municipality had half the population, the catalog estimates the necessary agents at around eighty.
If the catalog were reviewed, today there would be many more. Not only that, but of those 80, there are barely 52 on the squad. In other words, the percentage of coverage is 65%, well below the average for the Canary Islands, which stands at 77.2%, according to data made public by the Unified Association of Civil Guards.
On other occasions, the AUGC has expressed the need for the staff of the Armed Institute on the Islands to increase by a thousand agents, from the current 3,400 to 4,400.
It must be taken into account that between 2012 and 2018, the stage of cuts and adjustments, the replacement rate for those agents who retired was not applied. This led to the “disappearance” of 6,619 national police officers and 4,720 civil guards.
With the arrival at the Ministry of the Interior of Fernando Grande Marlaska, the former were covered at a faster rate than the latter. 93% of the deficit of Police agents was covered compared to 48.2% of those of the Civil Guard. All this thanks to placing the replacement rate at 125%.
As of today, 8,429 jobs have been replaced from the deficit of 11,339. That is, an average coverage of 65.8% between the two bodies.
