The Government delegate in Castilla y León, Virginia Barcones, highlighted today the “advance” towards a “modern, efficient and sustainable” Civil Guard fleet and pointed out that, during the last year, the Benemérita has received more than 450 new vehicles, which has made it possible to “renew a third of the mobile fleet” in the Autonomous Community. Barcones made these statements in the Plaza de la Catedral de Zamora, where he went to present a batch of 205 new vehicles incorporated by the Civil Guard in Castilla y León and which add to the 250 received several months ago. The 205 new vehicles will be distributed among the nine Civil Guard headquarters and in the XII Zone of the Civil Guard of Castilla y León. “Specifically, 183 cars have arrived. 27 of them electric, another part are mixed, others are combustion, and 22 motorcycles “exposed.
“Therefore, 455 new vehicles between 2022 and February 2023 that will help us provide a better service, our agents will be much safer and we assume this commitment firsthand for sustainability and with that less polluting mobility”, maintained the delegate, who was accompanied by the sub-delegate of the Government in Zamora, Ángel Blanco; the head of the XII Zone of the Civil Guard in Castilla y León, Luis del Castillo, and the head of the Zamora Civil Guard Command, Héctor David Pulido.
“In addition, with actions of this type, we bring green technologies closer to the rural environment, where most of the barracks that will receive these investments are located. It is, therefore, regarding improving the capabilities of the Armed Institute to offer service to citizens in the most depopulated areas, ”he stressed. “The agents who provide service at Seprona, which is where the three motorcycles are intended, commented that before, when they were approaching, they might hear them because of the noise and these motorcycles have zero emissions but, in addition, zero noise, which that will allow us to provide a better service in all aspects”, he pointed out.
three per cent
Virginia Barcones stressed that electric vehicles already represent three percent of the total number of the Civil Guard. “In Castilla y León, in the twelfth zone, we are ahead, it is something else”, accurate. “To facilitate its charging, the Ministry is currently assuming an investment of 9.7 million euros, financed under the Spain Can Plan, which will allow the addition of nearly 1,500 charging points in the Corps barracks distributed throughout the entire national territory,” he added.
“With this action, the Government has a commitment, a green commitment to sustainable mobility and we are the first to assume this premise, adding more sustainable vehicles to the Civil Guard fleet that are less polluting. We are convinced that this is the path and, therefore, we are moving in this direction”, he initialed.
The delegate recalled that the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge jointly develop several actions within the Energy Transition Plan, of the General State Administration, which is part of the Spain Can Plan. “This plan seeks to gradually reduce the energy demand and the dependence on fossil fuels of the infrastructures and buildings of the Interior, but it also facilitates the transition to zero-emission mobility in the fleets of police vehicles and that is where this action is disturbed”, commented. “The substitution in Spain of nearly 6,000 vehicles of the State Security Forces and Corps is planned, which will be replaced by new vehicles like the ones we are presenting today and in Castilla y León. In addition, the installation of more than 3,000 charging points in the barracks is planned to provide coverage for these new vehicles, ”he noted.
In this context, he assured that in Castilla y León “we already have enough charging points, in anticipation of the vehicles that we were going to” incorporate into the fleet. “We are also going to continue incorporating new charging points because we are going to continue waiting for more vehicles to continue arriving to change the entire fleet that we have in Castilla y León,” he said.
Quarters
On the other hand, the delegate explained that the Government of Spain will rehabilitate barracks “with the criteria of maximum efficiency and comfort” for the residents and for the agents themselves. “In Castilla y León, at the moment, we have 42 actions to improve the barracks planned for the 59 buildings of the Ministry of the Interior that are going to be carried out with financing from the Spain Can Plan”, she stressed.
“In Zamora, the Puebla de Sanabria barracks have been included, with a budget of 3.3 million euros; that of Camarzana de Tera, with one million euros, and that of Villalpando, with 820,000 euros. We are also building, under the State Security Infrastructure Plan 2019-2025, the new Fuentesaúco barracks, which will be finished this spring, ”he listed.
Virginia Barcones expressed her gratitude to the 7,000 men and women of the Civil Guard who provide their services in Castilla y León. “They allow us to maintain this autonomous community as one of the safest territories in Spain, which is one of the safest countries in the world,” I assess. “According to the crime data from the Ministry of the Interior corresponding to the third quarter of 2022, the crime rate in Castilla y León is 35.9 criminal offenses per thousand inhabitants: we are twelve points below the average for Spain. But it is also that in Zamora these statistics are even better, ”he added, referring to the 30.6 criminal offenses per thousand inhabitants registered in the province.
