Se incorporarán diez agentes a la Policía Nacional de Torrelavega y se crearán cinco plazas más en la plantilla.
A dozen agents are going to join the National Police of Torrelavega «shortly,» in addition to the modification of the positions catalog of the police station to increase it by creating five more positions.
Specifically, the new additions will be four chief inspectors and six officers – one sub-inspector and five police officers – with the aim of responding to the criminal episodes that have alarmed citizens in recent months, including several shootings, such as those that occurred last summer in Barrio Covadonga, at the end of the year in Barreda and Campuzano, or the one just over two months ago in La Inmobiliaria.
Precisely, following the latest incident on Monday in the Sniace area, a Local Security Board meeting was held this morning attended by the Government Delegate in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego; the mayor, Javier López Estrada; the chief of police, Carmen Martínez; and the first deputy mayor and the councilor of Security, José Luis Urraca and Pedro Pérez Noriega.
In statements to the media after the meeting, they have announced the measures agreed upon to control criminals, although they have pointed out that the reinforcement of the police was already planned before the events on Monday.
SIX DETAINEES REMAIN IN PRISON
In fact, they have highlighted all the actions that were already being carried out and have emphasized that the previous shootings resulted in the arrest of seven people, six of whom remain in provisional detention. Regarding Monday’s incident, they have not provided new details as «not even 48 hours have passed» and the police are still investigating.
Thus, they have all expressed their «commitment» to «do everything possible» to ensure security.
The Government Delegate has assured that she is «equally concerned as any citizen of Torrelavega» about these events and that measures have been taken «from minute one» from her administration. «Not since Monday, but months ago» with reinforcements from the Citizen Action Group or the Prevention and Reaction Unit (UPR).
She confirmed that these reinforcements will be maintained because they have resulted in those seven arrests, combined with the addition of the ten officers – something that was «already marked on our route,» she said – and with the approval of the Ministry of the Interior for the increase in the positions catalog by five more.
In addition, Gómez de Diego lamented that in recent days «dangerous messages» have been sent to the public and took the opportunity to respond to the press conference held on Tuesday by the PP spokesperson in Torrelavega, Miguel Ángel Vargas, who questioned «what else had to happen» for the delegate to «assume her responsibilities.»
In this regard, she indicated that she «understands» that as opposition they take advantage of «any event that occurs to scratch some votes,» but she believes that they have made «irresponsible» statements when the message that should be conveyed is that «serious crimes do not go unpunished.»
She also reproached that when the PP was in power «twice as many robberies were committed,» because «13,000 officers were lost throughout Spain, also in Cantabria,» while with the current Government «the number of National Police and Civil Guard officers has been progressively increasing.» Specifically, a 6% increase in Torrelavega since 2018, she detailed.
For his part, the mayor conveyed to the residents of Torrelavega that «each and every person who has committed crimes in our city in recent months and is alarming the population will be apprehended and will be in prison.» «I have no doubt about the commitment and effort that all the forces and security bodies of the State are making for this to happen,» he said.
To achieve this, they are «fighting with all the tools,» police and administrative, and reinforcing «all the security forces,» who have ongoing «numerous investigations and operations» that have already borne fruit, for example, with the elimination of drug sales points.
These tasks are «interfering with the calm and quiet operation that these criminal groups have been carrying out in the city for a long time,» he said, while committing to do «everything in our power» to remove them from the city «as soon as possible.»
