Issue date: 29 Sep, 2020
INCLUSION OF WOMEN IN THE NATIONAL POLICE AND CIVIL GUARD
With the symbol of Venus, representing the female sex, in pink and with two blurred illustrations, one of a woman wearing a Civil Guard uniform and the other of a woman wearing a National Police uniform, Correos issues a stamp to commemorate more than three decades of women in the Civil Guard, and the forty years in the National Police.
In 1988, the law was passed that allowed women to join the Civil Guard. That year saw 197 women enter the Civil Guard's Baeza Academy in Jaén.
Until then, women in the Civil Guard were limited to the position known as "matronas", women who were responsible for administrative tasks and searching detained women.
In 1993, the first woman joined the General Military Academy in Zaragoza and, after five-years training, she became the first woman to be a lieutenant in the Civil Guard in 1998.
In 2007, the Observatory for Women in the State Security Forces and Corps was created, the first body in this field to formalise effective equality between men and women in the security forces.
For its part, nine years earlier, on 30 June 1979, only months after the Spanish Constitution came into effect, 42 women joined the National Police Force for the first time in its history.
The inclusion of women was a milestone for equality in our country and in the history of the Police. Today, it is the Spanish police force with the highest percentage of women.
Within the Police General Directorate, the Personnel and Regulatory Projects Commission of the Police Board is the body responsible for ensuring equality between men and women. Today, the National Police has achieved effective equality in all aspects, both in internal promotion and in jobs.
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