The General Director meets with those responsible for the Civil Guard in Extremadura
María Gámez has known first-hand, through her main commands, the structure, organization and problems of the Extremadura Area
He has visited the Cáceres and Badajoz Commanderies and the Mérida Traffic Academy
The General Director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, has held a working meeting with those responsible for the Civil Guard in the Extremadura area.
The Civil Guard commanders have explained to the Director General the tasks they carry out in the Area and in the Cáceres and Badajoz Commanderies, and what their evolution has been in recent years, as well as their prospects and future plans.
Previously, María Gámez has met with the President of the Extremadura Board and with the Government Delegate where they have discussed, among other things, the new situation of the new State of Alarm, where collaboration and coordination between institutions is more necessary than ever. and there the Civil Guard will be involved one hundred percent.
The Civil Guard in Extremadura
The Extremadura Civil Guard Area is made up of the Cáceres Command with a total of 73 posts and the Badajoz Command with a total of 89 posts, all of them responsible for citizen security for 87.62% of the Community's territory . To carry out this task, it has more than 2,800 troops, of which 150 are women.
The Extremadura Area, to serve its entire demarcation, has Citizen Security Units, the Cynological Service, Mobile Material Service, Geas, Information Service, Judicial Police Service, Armament, Occupational Risks, Rock Equipment, Pegasus Equipment and the Extremadura Traffic Sector.
Among the topics that have been discussed during the meeting are data related to the work carried out by the Civil Guard in relation to citizen security.
Regarding crime rates, the work of the Extremadura Area in the period January-September 2020 stands out for the global decrease of almost 22% in the crimes of abductions in agricultural and livestock farms, this decrease being for this type of crimes of 18.97% in the Comandancia de Badajoz and 25.88% in the Comandancia de Cáceres.
The Director General has held a meeting with staff from all jobs in which she congratulated them for the work carried out in relation to the health crisis situation and urged them to continue serving in this new State of Alarm with the same effort and dedication to offer the best service to citizens.
She added that she is sure that the Civil Guard is going to live up to what is expected of it, times are going to be complicated and we must give the best of all of us.
Command of Badajoz
The Civil Guard in the Badajoz Command is responsible for the citizen security of 160 municipalities, which represents 85.37% of the total extension of the province. To carry out this task, it has more than 1,600 personnel and a total of 89 posts.
They have Citizen Security, Information, Judicial Police, Seprona, Weapons Intervention, Traffic Grouping, Gedex, and Cynological Service, Geas, 7 Roca Teams and 1 Pegaso Team, among others, to serve their demarcation.
Regarding the main criminal typologies within the crimes that generate the greatest social alarm, it is worth noting the decrease in robberies with force in homes, establishments and other places that throughout this period of 2020 has meant a decrease of 3 , 71%.
Mérida Traffic School
The Director General, during her visit to the Mérida Traffic School, addressed a few words to the students of the III Master's Degree in Road Traffic Safety who are studying, in addition to members of the Corps, other local and regional police forces and other countries. "Masters like this are a transmission belt to promote the culture of road safety that is so important to our daily lives."
This School, dependent on the Deputy Operational Directorate and jointly with the Headquarters of the Traffic and Education Group, is divided into seven departments: legal sciences, accident investigation and reconstruction, instruction and training, operational analysis of services, investigation and reconstruction of accidents, motoring area and university studies.
In it, the specialization courses of Motorists, Attempts and Traffic Management are mainly taught, having received training at the School this year 2020 a total of 491 students. It also stands out for putting into practice the knowledge update sessions for personnel of the specialty of the Traffic Group through which 820 students have passed in this year 2020.
Cáceres Command
The Civil Guard in the Cáceres Command is responsible for citizen security in 90.09% of the territorial extension of the province. To carry out this task, it has more than 1,200 personnel and a total of 73 posts.
They have Citizen Security, Information, Judicial Police, Seprona, Weapons Intervention, Traffic Grouping, Gedex, and Cynological Service units, and 6 Roca Teams, among others, to serve their demarcation.
Among the topics that have been discussed during the meeting, the data related to the work carried out by the Civil Guard in relation to citizen security and the problems in the province stand out.
The General Director congratulated the Cáceres Command for its innovation projects that are being launched and that are being piloted to export to the rest of the Civil Guard. Highlighting how thanks to the unification of various applications as of January 2021 it will be the first command to achieve "zero paper", a goal of the Public Administration and the Civil Guard.
In this sense, it has been explained that in the demarcation of the Civil Guard in the province of Cáceres in the period January-September 2020 the crime rate has fallen by 0.80% from the freeze to last 2019.
Regarding the main criminal typologies within the crimes that generate the greatest social alarm, it is worth noting the decrease in crimes constituting theft, which has resulted in a reduction of 25.69%.
