Summers these days are a time of battle between municipal police forces and their city halls, and this summer time is actually no exception.

The members of the Policía Native de Motril had been out protesting yesterday in entrance of the City Corridor, demanding extra personnel and tools, with the backing of the related police unions.

At 11.00h, as scheduled, 140 folks gathered in entrance of the City Corridor constructing on the Plaza de España while inside they had been holding a Plenary Assembly of the City Council.

The workers of the municipal police power have been simmering for a number of months over the shortage of shoes on the bottom, which places most people in peril, they contemplate, for each guests and residents.

In truth, the Spokesman for the Union, Daniel Orgega, regrets that the summer time honest is not going to be safe/protected and urges the Councillor for Citizen Security, Mara Escámez and the Mayor, Luisa García Chamorro, to discover a resolution to the issue.

The stated fiestas will likely be held between the ninth and the sixteenth and in the intervening time they may solely have a standard patrols with no additional policing obtainable. Beneath regular circumstance, every shift has two patrol rounds however through the honest, additional policing offers 14 officers. Eight officers are wanted to direct visitors on the entrance to the fairground while the opposite six officers patrol the honest. It’s this additional policing that gained’t be in place this August.

“This yr, it’s finest to go to the fairground on foot,” defined the police-union Spokesman, declaring that Protección Civil will not be authorised to direct visitors or make arrests, clearly.

Within the meantime, the police union will meet with the stated councillor so as to negotiate.

One of many beefs is over pay as a result of the police union says that Motril municipal-officers earn 500 euros lower than different cities. At current the police power has 87 officers, 45 of whom are on administrative duties and 24 are on vacation. One other 15 are within the second-line of obligation due to their age. The common age of cops in Motril is 50. Solely 30 officers really do patrol work, cut up into shifts.

Lastly, the Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias says that ideally Motril ought to have 115 officers plus one other 10% for outlaying municipal dependencies.

Editorial remark: a brand new recruit within the Políca Native earns more cash than a corporal within the Guardia Civil with a number of years’ expertise. If anyone deserves to be paid extra, it’s the Guardia Civil, who do a a lot better job, if the reality be identified.

(Information: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)