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The coronavirus has claimed the first victim among the active personnel of the National Police Force . This is a veteran agent who has been part of the riot units for five years and who had just joined his new destination, at the Girona airport .

José Luis Gómez was 60 years old and had been admitted for several days. This officer was assigned to the IPU for more than 20 years, in Barcelona in the Police Intervention Unit . He was part of the deployment of the Ministry of the Interior to stop the incidents carried out by the radicals after the procès sentence was made public.

Currently, he had risen to the rank of officer and was assigned to the Girona-Costa Brava airport. It is, according to sources, the first active member of the National Police to die as a victim of the coronavirus. Last week, a police officer, in a situation of second activity, died as a result of the coronavirus.

As explained by the Ministry of the Interior , almost 300 agents of this Institution have been affected by the virus. One of the last, precisely, the deputy operational director, José Ángel González, who went to Moncloa daily to facilitate the part of the police activities since the state of alarm began.

Also in the Civil Guard, its deputy operational director, Laurentino Ceña , has been affected. In both cases, they are isolated at home and doing their work electronically.

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