The Popular Party denounces that the Local Police currently has about 200 agents less than in 2015 when the popular ruled. Councilor Santiago Ballester maintains that the reduction in the workforce “seriously affects citizen security” in the city’s neighborhoods. Calls for greater police reinforcement to prevent robberies such as the one that occurred this week to an old woman in the Plaza San Agustín.
Ballester highlights “the professionalism” of the Local Police officers, who despite of the loss of personnel and media that have been suffering, managed to arrest the alleged thief and aggressor in a very short time.
Ballester affirms that, according to the municipal budget for 2020, there are now 1,466 officers when 1,659 police positions were occupied in 2015. This is 193 fewer officers in five years. In addition, in 2015 there were 257 vacancies in the Local Police, and today these vacancies have almost doubled, there are 439, which represents 23 percent of the unoccupied workforce. The councilor of the PP asks for an “immediate police reinforcement” in Valencia, with a coordinated plan among the Police, given the rise in public insecurity in recent days, with violent robberies and assaults on public roads and entering homes.
“Increased insecurity”
Given the rise in public insecurity in recent days in Valencia city, with violent robberies and assaults, “in which we have had to regret brutal attacks on an elderly person and a stabbing in a robbery of a watch”, highlighted the popular mayor. “We asked for a immediate police reinforcement in Valencia, with a coordinated plan between the Police “.
Ballester has requested “a safe Valencia plan that will provide the city with more troops, since it has lost its staff in recent years more than 300 agents Y the Neighborhood Police has been eliminated how effective it is in cases like the event that occurred last Tuesday in preventing crime. “
The PP has been warning of this decrease in the number of staff that is taking place every year an increase in crime rates that only the months of confinement due to COVID-19 have decreased, but that drug trafficking in the city has increased in those months.
Unions also ask for more agents
The police unions themselves warned days ago of the reduction of police and firefighters. From the Professional Union of Local Police and Firefighters (SPPLB) showed a week ago your worry by the state in which the Citizen Protection Area of the Valencia City Council is located, which fundamentally includes the Local Police and Fire Brigades. Especially this decrease also affects the fight against compliance with measures to stop COVID 19.
The union warned in its statement that in recent years there has been a authentic lack of interest in said Delegation on the part of our political leaders that has derived to a very worrying state of the municipal Corps of Local Police and Firemen; and above all, with a negative impact very direct to the citizen and their safety.
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