The Ministry of the Interior is advancing its plan to allow the Canary Islands Police to take charge of control of the Port of Arguineguín, allowing the Canary Islands police authorities to have maritime patrol boats, to the detriment of the Civil Guard, which will have to withdraw. Before the Canarian Police arrive, the National Police will do so for the purposes of a transition process. Both forces, both the Civil Guard and the National Police, enjoy great prestige among residents, the Mogán City Council and tourism businessmen for their great control in the area where they have dismantled jihadist clans and Mexicans from drug trafficking. For the Canarian Police, assuming these powers will be a challenge given the high demand for services that it will have to assume and that will affect areas such as marinas such as Pasito Blanco or the Anfi del Mar Marina.
This is a historical process that generates hysteria among the labor defense associations of the Civil Guard since surveillance in the arrival area of boats with illegal migrants is going to undergo changes that will depend on the personnel of the CNP Police Station in Playa del Inglés . Is there work for everyone? This opens the possibility for the Civil Guard to increase its rural security efforts and surveillance of tourist areas.
The Unified Association of Civil Guards has denounced the progressive dismantling of the Civil Guard, "through the back door and violating current legislation" of State Security Forces and Corps from the Ministry of the Interior, the Secretary of State for Security and the General Directorate of Coordination and Studies.
Since September 2023, this process has been underway after the handover of citizen security and judicial police powers in the Port of Santander to the National Police. For AUGC this is: "removing powers in ports from the Civil Guard to hand them over to the Regional Police and the National Police, contrary to all European regulations on borders, once again confronting the European Union and Frontex, making Spain look ridiculous." against our European partners". AUGC has requested "the protection of the courts against any illegal and unconstitutional rule that the Ministry publishes, or sends hidden from public opinion."
