• Interior Police unions explode against the Generalitat and call a demonstration in Barcelona

What began a few weeks ago as a clamor by the police forces in Catalonia against the Generalitat and other administrations in the face of "an unsustainable situation" is on the way to becoming a generalized protest to demand improvements in security and public order. The unions and associations of the Mossos d'Esquadra and Local Police already made it clear when they called the demonstration scheduled for this Saturday in Barcelona that the situation had "reached the limit" so that, given "the seriousness of the situation, we consider that we are not only the police forces who have to be mobilized. "

"Civil society, fleeing from the denounced political instrumentalization, should feel challenged, since it is also affected by the current situation and suffers in first person, its dire consequences," said the organizations convening the protest, which they have seen as their request. support has been heard. And it is that in the demonstration not only will be present representatives of the various police forces but also groups, organizations and citizen platforms that want to support the demands of the agents in addition to demanding more security in the streets.

The trigger for the mobilization called by the Mossos unions SAP-FEPOL, USPAC-USCOP, SPC, SME, CAT-ME, Seimei-FEPOL, SICME, AFITCME and SEI; of the Urban Guards and Local Police SICPOL, SFP-FEPOL, SAPPL and SAPOL, as well as the professional association of the Mossos, was the attacks on the agents during public order interventions, mainly in the control of bottles, in the past summer. However, the protest has been extended to the security situation.

Thus, other groups will also attend the call scheduled for this Saturday, such as taxi drivers, merchants, neighborhood associations and even political parties, among many others. "We ask that no flags, no logos and no prominence to politics, one of our demands is that we not be politicized, so we ask the same of those who want to come," explains Fepol spokesman Toni Castejón. It is also expected that agents from other bodies of the State Forces and Security from other parts of Spain, such as the Civil Guard and the Police, who have already expressed their support for the demonstration.

"The critical moment that we are living deserves this protest," says Castejón, who adds that "I do not remember such a complex situation on the street, we have held demonstrations for salary issues or lack of means, but now the loss of authority that we suffer is added, with the high level of violence and insecurity and the political neglect towards the police. It is time to strike on the table. "

Trapero's support

The organizers of the protest received unexpected support yesterday. In his speech on the occasion of the Dia de les Esquadres, the mayor of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Josep Lluís Trapero, lamented the increase in "worrying behaviors of intolerance" against the police endorsed by some political sectors and recalled that the agents, as servants "Essential" publics ask for "respect, not submissive attitudes or fears that have already been overcome from the police." "Lack of respect and intolerance of authority affects the pact and social balance," he said.

In addition, he expressed his "concern" about "worrisome behaviors of intolerance, not generalized, not quantitatively relevant, but violent group behaviors that express a worrying intolerance" against the police and of attitudes that endorse them as public debates in which "to that who throws a stone at the police is awarded the title of activist. " "Respect for authority and also respect for police authority agents are a whole in a democratic country, they are inseparable," said Trapero, who recalled that whoever "endorses" the lack of respect for officers "forgets that the police authority is delegated and comes from the judicial and governmental authority ".

"We understand that the exercise of the right to rally and demonstration has to bother, because if not, they are not such, this is how our societies have advanced, it is what our parents did to get schools, health centers, municipal markets and a thousand things. But I wonder: What is it about changing the world by throwing stones at the police or burning containers? What is this new paradigm and what is transformative and revolutionary about it? "he said.

"Underappreciated" city guards

The police unions have called the protest under the slogan "for public safety and police dignity" since they consider that "in recent times the administrations do not support our work as police officers, public servants and guarantors of order." Thus, the Union of the Urban Guard Sapol recalled that in nightlife concentrations in Barcelona they have felt "belittled by a part of the citizenry, sometimes putting our integrity at risk" in addition to seeing the damage to shops, public furniture, buildings and private cars and "violent attacks on the police with total impunity."

"And more than hearing statements condemning acts of vandalism and criminalizing a part of society for these antisocial behaviors, we have not found the support of our leaders in defense of our work or of our colleagues," says the union that regrets "the evident drift social in terms of respect for the law and the most elementary rules of coexistence. A situation until now never experienced. A situation that shows a serious public security crisis. "

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