The Government’s commitment to boosting public safety has made it possible for Mallorca and Menorca to have 50 more police officers this summer.
Half a hundred agents graduated this Tuesday in the 45th promotion of the Local Police Training Course carried out by the Balearic School of Public Administration (EBAP). The Government’s commitment to boosting public safety has made it possible for Mallorca and Menorca to have 50 more police officers this summer, mainly as trainees or interim officers.
The councillor of the Presidency and Public Administrations, Antònia Maria Estarellas, the directors general of Civil Service and of Emergencies and the Interior, Antoni Mesquida and Sebastià Sureda, respectively, as well as the managing director of the EBAP, Violeta Rodríguez, took part in the event. Also in attendance were mayors and councillors from the municipalities of Mallorca and Menorca, as well as a large number of representatives from the local police forces of the islands.
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Fifty officers graduate from the 45th promotion of the Local Police Training Course
Specifically, 48 students from Mallorca and Menorca graduated today, to which we must add 2 officers from the previous graduating class who will be appointed career civil servants. Of these 48 students, 31 have done so through the bodies convened by one of the 13 municipalities of Mallorca (Felanitx, Santa, Maria, Sant Llorenç, Manacor, Muro, Sa Pobla, Son Servera, Santa Margalida, Alaró, Fornalutx and Sineu) and Menorca (Maó and Ciutadella) adhered to this edition. All of them will begin an internship in each assigned municipality with a minimum duration of 6 months and a maximum of one year. The rest who have passed the competitive examination phase without a body will have access to a pool of interims that will be essential to be able to respond to the needs of the municipalities.
Therefore, by completing the training course, students will be able to work as local police officers and, in this way, help to alleviate the lack of police officers in all the municipalities of the Balearic Islands. And they will be able to do so this summer when the demand for police officers in the municipalities is greatest, thanks to the decision of the Government of the Balearic Islands to bring forward the calendar of the training course. In this way, one of the main measures included in the firm commitment of President Prohens to promote public safety in the municipalities of the islands has been fulfilled, favouring an increase in the number of local police forces and boosting the training of officers.
Councillor Estarellas stated that the government will continue to work to ‘offer our professionals better training and skills and to continue adapting the EBAP training calendars to the needs of the municipalities to improve the level of public safety on our islands’.