The senator for La Gomera denounces the territorial imbalance in matters of public security and asks to guarantee the permanence of the Reserve and Security Group in the Canary Islands
Madrid, May 16, 2025. The senator of the Gomera Socialist Group (ASG), Fabián Chinea, has defended in the Joint Congress-Senate Insularity Commission an initiative to improve the human and material resources of the Civil Guard in the Canary Islands, as well as to reverse the dissolution of the Reserve and Security Group number 8 (GRS-8), which was stationed in the Archipelago. During his speech, Chinea denounced that the announcement of the disappearance of the GRS-8 was “a political measure adopted without consensus or analysis of the impact on the emergency response capacity,” and stressed that its restitution is key to guaranteeing security in a “border, fragmented and exposed to migration crises and natural disasters” community.
In addition, Chinea defended an amendment with the aim of reinforcing the number of Civil Guard troops in the green islands: La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, and also to study the permanent deployment of the National Police in La Gomera and El Hierro, where there is currently no stable presence of that body. All of this, he stressed, “in order to consolidate the capabilities of the police forces in the non-capital islands.”
“The staff is stressed, there is a lack of agents and there is a clear security gap with respect to the rest of the country,” warned Fabián Chinea, who called for “a security policy that addresses the uniqueness of the Canary Islands, from the perspective of insularity, geographical dispersion and the constitutional principle of equality between all Spaniards.” The Gomero representative recalled that public security is “a basic right, not a question of population density,” and appealed to the need to correct “historical imbalances that continue to affect the daily lives of many non-capital islands.”
