Benidorm supports the National Police on the 200th anniversary of its foundation

A space as emblematic as El Castell de Benidorm hosted this afternoon the event commemorating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the National Police, an event organized jointly by the Benidorm City Council and the local Police to highlight the history of this Corps and the work that its officials carry out daily as guarantors of security and freedoms in our country.

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, accompanied by the councillor of Public Service, Jesús Carrobles, and numerous members of the Municipal Corporation, presided over the event together with the local commissioner, Ceferino Serrano Torres. The General Director of Housing of the Generalitat Valenciana, Sebastián Fernández, has also accompanied the National Police in this celebration, along with a large representation of civil society, including the senior judge of Benidorm, Joan Francesc Vives; the chief mayor of the Benidorm Local Police, Luis Arévalo; and other members and commanders of the National Police, Civil Guard and Civil Protection; as well as representatives of business and social associations, or other municipalities in the region, among whom were the mayors of La Vila Joiosa and Callosa d'en Sarrià, Marcos Zaragoza and Andrés Molina; or the councillor of Public Service in Finestrat, Beatriz Quintillán.

The mayor and the superintendent were in charge of starting this commemoration by reviewing the police formation, after which they received the flag of Spain and presided over its raising with solemnity and under the strains of the Spanish anthem. Next, it was the turn of the head of the National Police, who before giving his institutional speech wanted to publicly express his gratitude to the mayor, Toni Pérez, for the constant collaboration between the City Council and the National Police.

Ceferino Serrano also wanted to thank the municipal support in organizing this event with El Castell as the stage; as well as the congratulation, recognition and public gratitude made this Saturday by the first mayor, through a column in the newspaper with the largest provincial circulation, given his impossibility of doing so in person during the 200th anniversary ceremony by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

In it, the mayor of Benidorm conveys the city's "admiration, affection, appreciation, recognition and respect" for "the men and women who make up" the National Police, a city that feels "proud of its services." Likewise, Toni Pérez once again insisted at the end of the event on the “special role” of this Corps in a city like Benidorm and for its “attention to residents and tourists, reinforcing the security environment that the city enjoys.”

The first mayor did not want to overlook that "there have been more than 60 years of fruitful relationship since the first temporary Police Department arrived in Benidorm in May 1963 for a summer operation" and he has stated that today, almost 50 years after the construction of the National Police Station on Apolo XI Street, we still are waiting for the construction of the new National Police Station.”

A tribute to the national police officers who died in service during all this time and the interpretation of the anthem of this Police Force brought the celebration to an end.