The Galician Civil Guard suffers from the lack of a thousand agents “every day”, a situation that hits hardest in the smallest or most isolated villages and which, according to the general secretary of the Galician People’s Party, Paula Prado , responds to a project by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to “dismantle” the presence of Benemérita in rural areas. This would be, he underlined this Saturday, a measure prepared by the State within the framework of the call for tenders recently published at the BOE which proposes the “artificial creation of super-realistic avatars to the corporate image of the Civil Guard” to “replace” the “real” agents are “virtual”.
These statements were presented on Saturday, after a meeting he held with associations of the Civil Guard to collect their demands and in which was also present the deputy of Congress and head of the Interior of the State PP, Ana Vázquez . “Between the lack of positions in the catalog and sick leave, Every day there are a thousand fewer Civil Guard agents in our autonomous community”, began by explaining Prado. According to the data managed by his party, the province that suffers the most from this lack is La Coruña, with 350 fewer agents; followed by Pontevedra, with 283; Lugo, with 204 and Ourense, with 16.
“The news we receive is worrying as we confirm that the Sánchez government is neglecting the Civil Guard and, therefore, the security of Galicians.” A scenario which, for Prado, becomes more serious because “it seems” that instead of working to strengthen its ranks, “the Spanish government wants replace real agents with virtual agents. In addition, he stressed that the “intentions” of the Ministry of the Interior are to “dismantle the Civil Guard in small municipalities and rural areas” and highlighted the auxiliary positions of “at least seven town halls” – A Pobra do Caramiñal, Touro, As Somozas, Cariño, el Incio, Sober and Baltar – which are already planned for closure.
In the same spirit, the PPdeG denounced in a press release that “there are fewer and fewer” open barracks that provide in-person care 24 hours a day, whose operations have been reduced “to a schedule of 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.”, which is “inconceivable and intolerable” for Prado. “From the PPdeG, both in Congress, in the Senate, and in the Parliament of Galicia itself and in the councils that are affected by this lack of personnel, we will present initiatives to ask the government of Pedro Sánchez to rectify for the good of the Civil Guard, but also for the safety of all Galicians”, added the secretary general of the Popular Party.
A “direct attack”
It was her colleague Ana Vázquez who took over from Paula Prado’s intervention. The MP affirmed that “security is a right” and that, if there are means, “it is time to increase the number of agents and not to close the barracks”. He qualified Minister Marlaska’s projects “direct attack on rural areas” and, in reference to the figure of the “virtual agent”, he wondered “how the Internet will protect our elders” or “how will these people who do not have access to this service be able to file complaints online “. From his point of view, the reduction in the activity and presence of the Civil Guard aims “for there to be fewer complaints and thus to mask the delinquency figures which have continued to increase since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez at La Moncloa”.
