The Mogán City Council, through the Department of Citizen Security and the Local Police Headquarters, organizes this week a Basic Training Course in Civil Protection aimed at the Municipality's Civil Protection Volunteer Group, local agents as well as the neighborhood groups that intervene in the organization of public events. The purpose is to improve the training of volunteers as well as their coordination with the Security Bodies and Forces in the provision of protection services to citizens.
The first deputy mayor and Councilor for Citizen Security, Mencey Navarro, inaugurated this basic training course on civil protection, recalling that “Law 17/2015, on the National Civil Protection System, obliges all administrations to train its Civil Protection volunteers as well as those who are not volunteers but act as such in the municipalities and administrations.”
This fact has motivated the Mogán City Council to offer this training action to both the members of the municipality's Civil Protection and the Mogán Local Police Corps and to people who actively participate in the organization of public events. “We must not forget that many of our festivals are in some way directed by the Festival Commissions of the respective neighborhoods,” he noted. “It is a course required by law but without a doubt very necessary,” said Navarro, who also thanked the Professional Union of Local Police and Firefighters for the proposal to launch this training.
Also present at the opening ceremony, the head of the Mogán Local Police, Jorge Alemán, who highlighted “the fundamental role” of volunteering and Civil Protection action “in municipal emergency plans,” and emphasized based on this the importance of courses like this. For his part, the Civil Protection specialist who teaches the training, Gregorio Cano, explained the contents that comprise it, such as “the fundamentals of Civil Protection, how all administrations work, self-protection regarding citizenship and the powers of the administration".