The Public Prosecutor's Office has carried out a major restructuring of its staff in the Canary Islands . The State Attorney General's Office has formalized a complex reshuffling of positions and transfers that directly impacts the operational capacity of criminal litigation in the tourist areas with the highest crime rates in the country. The reassignment of posts affects the core of the prosecutor's offices in Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife , highlighting the problems of job security and high turnover experienced by prosecutors in the judicial districts of the islands.
The territorial section of San Bartolomé de Tirajana , the administrative behemoth that handles economic crimes, hotel disputes, and gender violence cases in the southern tourist hub of Gran Canaria, is both losing and gaining assets at a time of significant strain on the justice system. The rotation of prosecutors in these areas directly impacts the pace of investigations into major cases and complex crimes in regions subject to high transient population pressure.
The most notable change in the ministerial hierarchy involves prosecutor Laura González Jurado . After her time in the front-line judicial district of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, she is moving to the offices of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office in Las Palmas , the island's capital. To fill this vacancy in the southern courts, the Prosecutor's Office has had to establish an inter-island transfer: Gerardo Roque Quintana is leaving his post in the Territorial Section of Arona, in southern Tenerife—a location with similar patterns of tourist-related crime to Maspalomas—to take up his new position in San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
The dynamics of these transfers confirm that southern Gran Canaria and southern Tenerife operate as interconnected hubs where legal and prosecutorial professionals gain experience before moving to the prosecutor's offices in provincial capitals or to their home regions on the mainland. The vacancy left by Roque Quintana in southern Tenerife will be filled by Lucía Aguilar Paniagua , who is moving to Arona after her time as a Supporting Prosecutor in the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Málaga.
The challenge of stability in Arrecife and the north of the country
The rebalancing of the Public Prosecutor's Office in the eastern islands is completed with the appointment of Alberto Jiménez Alarcón to the Arrecife-Puerto del Rosario Area Prosecutor's Office, a body with jurisdiction over Lanzarote and Fuerteventura that has historically suffered from staff shortages due to the high cost of housing and the challenges of island life. Jiménez Alarcón arrives in the archipelago from the Granollers-Mollet Vallés Area Prosecutor's Office in Barcelona, a post with a very different workload than the Canary Islands, which handles cases related to drug trafficking, immigration management, and maritime border issues.
The exodus of prosecutors from the archipelago is evident in the transfer of Aurora Pérez Abascal , who has formalized her departure from the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to join the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, in Santander. This move coincides with the departure of Mónica Arias Robles from the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Bilbao, also to join the Cantabrian body. The loss of prosecutors experienced in Las Palmas forces the justice system to rely on constant staff turnover, hindering the continuous monitoring of criminal cases in the courts of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
