The Altea Local Police has hired 18 more policemen, raising the total number of cops to 40. Diego Zaragozí, the Mayor of Altea, officially introduced the new officers on Monday, November 3rd. According to Deo Sánchez, the Councillor for Citizen Security and First Deputy Mayor, twelve of them are career civil officials and six are temporary personnel.
The councillor said at the ceremony that this growth “strengthens the operational capacity of the Altea police force and improves attention to the needs of the residents of the municipality by reaching 40 agents on staff, which allows for greater and better service to the citizens.”
The mayor said that “Altea has taken a firm step in its commitment to public safety.” He also stressed that “security is a priority for this Governing Team.” He said, “We are responding to a request from the public with these additions.”
Deo Sánchez said, “The Department of Citizen Security is working on improving things by adding more staff. This includes getting new vehicles, training staff all the time, and upgrading technology.” Local Police Inspector Vicente Soler, who was at the event, said that with this increase, “the Altea Local Police now has a more balanced and better-prepared force to face the challenges of our town.” He went on to say, “The City Council is still working on making the force’s human and material resources better so that it can provide a service that is more accessible, efficient, and modern.”
The Citizen Security Councillor said that the new officers, who have passed the selection process, “will join the next course organised by IVASPE (Valencian Institute of Public Security and Emergencies, an entity of the Valencian Government ) to carry out the corresponding training” and added that during this first week “they will receive training on various subjects, such as the use of the EUROCOP police management application which includes highly innovative computer solutions that incorporate the latest technologies made up of a set of modular, comprehensive and integrated systems, with a high added value for the Security Forces.”
Finally, Deo Sánchez said that the new agents “will be certified in the use of the Semi-Automatic External Defibrillator, the use of defensive means, communications, and interaction with the citizen,” so that they can “integrate into the tasks of surveillance, traffic control, emergency response, and surveillance of public spaces.”
Author: Derek Appleton
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