The Security Corps and Forces -Police Foral, National Police and Civil Guard- together with the Government Delegation have prepared a document to unify the care given to victims of violence against women at the municipal level. Given the diversity of protocols approved by the Navarrese city councils, they have chosen to develop a common frame which will be added as an annex to these protocols. The objective is to avoid the re-victimization of women who suffer this violence. At present they are more than 520 which are monitored by the different police forces.
In recent years the training of agents on gender violence has been reinforcedand there are specialized units in each body. However, in many cases – as, for example, after suffering sexual abuse -, lThe victim may need the attention of a female agent in the first moments.
In this sense, those responsible for the security forces have recognized that women are missing in their ranks. In the case of the Civil Guard, this presence is “deficient”, since only 7-8% of the agents are female. The Colonel Chief of the Civil Guard, José Santiago Martín Gómez, explained that there are women in all specialized judicial police units, but not in the Citizen Security units.
The Foral Police Chief, Juan Carlos Zapico, has recognized that it is necessary to incorporate more women into the body. Especially in these cases because “female staff are the ones who best interact with victims. “
On the other hand, and in accordance with the Superior Chief of the National Police, Francisco López Canedo, andl 15% of the agents are women: “Here in Navarra it is absolutely exceptional that a victim of gender violence or sexual crime cannot be treated by a female agent”.
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