It took President Carlos Mazón six days to turn to the only senior official with a solid resume in disaster management. This is Rosa Tourís, who since last Monday has served as spokesperson in the appearances following the meetings of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) in l’Eliana.
The new visible face of the Cecopi, captain of the Civil Guard and native of Vilanova de Arousa, had her last assignment as head of service in the armed institute at the National Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures, an organization dependent on the Secretary of State of Security of the Ministry of the Interior. She was also head of the National Center for Disappeared Persons of Spain (CNDES), a pioneering organization in Europe. His career, in short, contrasts with some of the senior officials of the Mazón Government who hold powers in Emergencies.
“She is a very good spokesperson for reporting on technical issues,” say sources from the Presidency of the Generalitat. The same sources do not clarify whether his role as spokesperson will be stabilized for the next appearances. Tourís is situated at an intermediate point between the technical and political spheres. The captain of the Civil Guard, as confirmed by sources familiar with Cecopi, has been collaborating since last Wednesday in the management of the operation. In the meetings he has remained in the background although, after two consecutive appearances, he transmits a more technical message than ‘president’ Mazón, protagonist of a disastrous management.
Rosa Tourís, uniformed in an PPE jacket from the Fire Prevention department that she directs, has acted as spokesperson for the Cecopi meetings of the last two days (fifth and sixth since the DANA disaster). This Tuesday, in his second appearance, Tourís explained that the emergency services continue to search for possible victims in the Rambla del Poyo, the Magro river and the mouth of the Túria and l’Albufera. The general director has detailed the work of removing waste and belongings from landfills to speed up the clearing of roads and towns and has announced new offices in Algemesí, Alfafar and Albal of the National Police and the Civil Guard for complaints from relatives about possible missing.
In addition to the technical aspects of the measures, the general director has also detailed other measures of political significance, such as the 48-hour extension of the decree that regulates movement restrictions due to the need to use heavy machinery to speed up the work of the emergency teams. emergency in towns such as Aldaia, Alaquàs, Picanya, Sedaví, Paiporta, Benetússer, Alfafar, Massanassa, Catarroja, Albal and Beniparrell.
Training in Security and Forensic Medicine
Graduated in Law, specialized in the field of security and professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the Higher Institute of Law and Economics (associated with the Complutense), she joined the Civil Guard in 2001.
He has several master’s degrees in areas such as security management and forensic medicine and internal training of the Civil Guard as a specialist in Judicial Police and Information. In addition, Tourís was number one in the promotion of Civil Guard officers (she was the first woman to obtain that qualification since the armed institute incorporated women in 1988).
His long official resume details – in three pages – a section of awards and distinctions, such as several crosses, among others the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard, which he received a decade ago from King Felipe VI.
Substitute for the previous general director of Vox
Mazón’s latest lurch – the first that brings some sanity to the catastrophic management of DANA’s response – denotes the overflow of the Emergency team of the Department of Justice and Interior led by Salomé Pradas. Rosa Tourís’ top-level resume contrasts with that of other senior officials of the Consell with relevant functions in Emergency management, such as the general director of the Interior appointed last Tuesday, the expert in bullfighting celebrations and former mayor of the PP Vicente Huet.
Rosa Tourís was appointed general director of Fire Prevention on August 6, after the remodeling of the Consell as a result of the departure of Vox from the regional Executive. He replaced Francisco José Aparisi García, professor of Statistics at the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), in the position.
After the dismissal of the then Vox Minister of Justice and Interior, the powers of forest fire prevention passed into the hands of the Department of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, headed by Vicente Martínez Mus.
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