With the arrival of Prime Minister Rajoy to the government and the appointment of Juan Ignacio Zoido as Interior Miniter, they decided to split the command again considering that the coordination task was a duty of the Secretary of State for Security and that every agency needed to have their own command. In July 2017, Minister Zoido abolished the positions of Deputy Directors of Operations, a decision that was reversed by Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska in July of the following year.
