It was the year 2010 when the Government of the Canary Islands and the City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana signed an agreement to replace the Local Police with the autonomous security body in matters of tourism. 13 years after that agreement, nothing is known because it has not been executed. The presence of the Canarian Police is not known in the south of the island except to monitor races and open files in sports tourism or kart races in the countryside. A kind of sports police.
In that 2010, the regional councilor José Miguel Ruano, and the mayor, María del Pino Torres, established the agreement that stated that "the General Corps of the Canarian Police (CGPC) and the Local Police of San Bartolomé will provide services jointly to ensure for compliance with tourism regulations", as established by Law 2/2008, of May 28, of the General Corps of the Canarian Police. This expressly attributes to this autonomous police force the function of ensuring compliance with the tourism management legislation in the Canary Islands.
It was the first collaboration agreement of the CGPC with a tourist municipality and represented "a starting point for a way of doing things, for a model to follow that will reinforce their security structure," said Ruano. The agreement established that specific training would be provided through the Canarian Security Academy "to those police forces of the municipalities that sign the agreements," announced the then counselor. María del Pino Torres defended this agreement and that "without a doubt, the municipality will benefit from having more personnel and being able to establish closer coordination with the CGPC, whose creation has represented a great advance for the Autonomous Community," she highlighted. At that time, Roberto Martel was a Police Councilor for the municipality, who explained that the work of the agents will be concentrated mainly "in tourist areas and in conflictive places."
