The senator for Menorca, Cristóbal Marqués, reported on Tuesday to the Joint Committee on Insularity of the Regional Parliament that 140 posts in the National Police and Guardia Civil remain unfilled on the island and that across the Balearics as a whole, vacancies exceed a thousand.
The centre right Partido Popular reports in a statement that the Mahón police station is short of around 60 officers and that 30 per cent of posts at the Ciutadella station are vacant. The same situation, it claims, is repeated in Guardia Civil posts in Menorca, which affects security at the airport and the ports of Mahón and Ciutadella.
This is why the senator has called on the government to take urgent measures to address the structural shortage of personnel in the State Security Forces in the Balearics. The Menorcan has defended the motion jointly put forward by the four Balearic senators from the PP, which highlights the growing concern over security on the islands due to the lack of officers.
This situation, the senator stresses, places an excessive burden on local police forces and affects the quality of public service. “Whilst the resident population of the Balearics is growing every year, and by no small margin, the state’s human resources are not keeping pace and, in some cases, are even decreasing,” he claims.
The senator for Menorca also referred to the data contained in the Crime Report for the third quarter of 2025, which shows a 4.8% increase in the Balearics and an 18.9% rise in sexual offences. For Marqués, the staff shortage is not an isolated incident, but yet another sign of the neglect suffered by the islands at the hands of the Spanish Government.
The PP leader is calling for an update to the insularity allowance, which “has not been reviewed for 20 years and is currently a derisory, insufficient supplement that does not reflect the real cost of living in the Balearics”.
In contrast to the government’s “neglect”, Marqués pointed out that the Balearic Regional Government, led by Marga Prohens, “has indeed updated the insularity allowance for regional civil servants” and has introduced an income tax rebate of up to 40% for police officers and Civil Guard personnel.