Cabildo Awards Key Emergency Centre Contract
The Cabildo of Tenerife has awarded the management of the Island Operational Coordination Centre (Cecopin) to the public company Gesplan. The contract is worth €3.6 million and runs for three years, from 1 January until December 2028. It includes specific support for municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.
Reinforced Coordination and Summer Firefighting
During this period, the island’s Civil Protection Service will see emergency coordination strengthened through Cecopin, with increased personnel and equipment to tackle forest, climate, maritime, and geological crises. Under the supervision of the Cabildo’s Civil Protection Service, Gesplan will oversee control activities in all emergency areas, manage resources, plan and analyse tasks, and handle information, communication, and volunteer coordination.
Specifically during the summer months, the service of wildfire operation managers will be reinforced, especially during night-time hours when risk remains high and response capability must be guaranteed at all times.
Direct Support for Smaller Municipalities
This mandate incorporates a Planning Unit which will provide direct support to municipalities with under 20,000 residents in drafting, revising, and adapting their municipal emergency plans. Special attention will be given to those with a registered population of less than 5,000.
Investment in a Qualitative Leap for Safety
The new contract with Gesplan, valued at €3,642,938, is part of a project to restructure, modernise, expand, and reinforce the island’s civil protection service. This commitment represents a qualitative leap in emergency management, involving an increase in Cecopin staff, a reinforcement of personnel attached to the Security and Emergencies area, and the incorporation of new automated action protocols supported by new applications to facilitate incident management.
The island’s Security and Emergencies area will implement significant changes with the inclusion of technological tools, starting with an emergency information system for local administration, centralised task generation, and action procedures. This will enable a response to any island-wide emergency incident with the support of Cecopin managers and the technical staff of the island’s Civil Protection Service, establishing simple, direct protocols on how to act in each case.
Leadership Commitment to a Safer Island
The President of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, emphasised that “the safety of citizens is an absolute priority for this island Government.” She stated this new Cecopin mandate “responds to a clear commitment to the island’s municipalities” and to “the continuous improvement of emergency management.”
Dávila stressed that “cooperation with town councils, especially those with less technical capacity and resources, is essential to build an island better prepared for any emergency,” adding it is “a promise we made directly to Tenerife’s municipalities and are now beginning to deliver.”
The Councillor for Natural Environment, Sustainability, Security and Emergencies, Blanca Pérez, noted that “our objective is to guarantee people’s safety,” valuing Cecopin as “an essential service for managing any type of emergency on the island.” The new contract with Gesplan, she added, “serves to reinforce emergency prevention systems, as well as the direct management of incidents that may occur over its three-year term.”
A Model of Anticipation for Complex Terrain
The Island Director of Security and Emergencies, Iván Martín, pointed out that “this agreement is not just an administrative procedure, but a clear commitment to anticipation, coordination, and planning in the face of emergencies.” Martín underscored that “the new commitment means reinforcing a working model that allows us to anticipate risks, improve decision-making, and better coordinate all involved administrations and services.”
The goal of this measure on an island with complex topography and diverse risks is to make anticipation a key factor in protecting people, property, and the territory. The Cabildo works with the vision that each emergency is managed better than the last, with more information, more coordination, and greater response capacity. “This mandate reinforces our line of work and brings us closer to a common goal: that Tenerife becomes a safer island every day,” concluded the Security and Emergencies area.
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