Common name Policía Canaria | Formed June 30, 2010 | |
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Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Governing body Government of the Canary Islands Constituting instrument Ley del Cuerpo General de la Policía Canaria (28 May 2008) | ||
The Policía Canaria are the police force of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain. It was formed in 2010 by Paulino Rivero, the President of the Canary Islands.
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The Ley del Cuerpo General de la Policía Canaria (English: Law of the General Police Corps of the Canary Islands), passed on 28 May 2008 by the Parliament of the Canary Islands, states that the functions of the police force include the guarding and protection of people, bodies, buildings, facilities and units of the autonomous community and its instrumental bodies, and to ensure compliance with the regulations and orders issued by the organs of the community, among others.
This regional police work consists of the General Police Corps Canaria and the local police bodies of the 88 municipalities canaries. The hundred agents configured promotion pimera General Body only.
One hundred agents, 92 men and 8 women, made up the first promotion of Police Canary in a presentation ceremony held on June 30 of 2010 at the Academy of Security Canaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the regional president said that this was only the first step in a deployment that will reach 1,700 officers in several phases.
His first mission was to celebrate the Festival of the Virgen de las Nieves, on the island of La Palma.
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