Cádiz, epicenter of drug trafficking and the Andalusian Civil Guard staff deficit

On November 30, two hundred Civil Guard agents were deployed in the towns of Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Chipiona in the penultimate operation against

that has taken place in the province of Cádiz throughout 2021.

The objective was a network of

money

from the cultivation and sale of marijuana and the operation, dubbed Operation Talofita, resulted in a dozen detainees.

That was just one of the countless deployments that the armed institute has developed over the past year in Cádiz, a province that continues to be the epicenter of drug trafficking in southern Spain (and southern Europe) and in which they are very intensively concentrated. the efforts of the state security forces and bodies in their fight against drug organizations. To the point that since 2018 Cádiz, specifically the Campo de Gibraltar, has been at the center of a

promoted by the Ministry of the Interior and that has been extended further to the neighboring provinces.

Despite all this, Cádiz accumulates the largest number of uncovered Civil Guard positions in the entire community.

17% of the

that the armed institute has vacancies in Andalusia are in the province with the most drug activity.

According to data compiled by the Professional Association of Justice for the Civil Guard (Jucil), the barracks in this province are missing

of the 2,563 that make up the staff.

The provincial deficit is higher than 8% and only Seville and Jaén show higher percentages of unfilled places.

In all Andalusia

of the armed institute

should be deployed

, but there are only 15,410.

In other words, 7.58% of the Civil Guard staff in the region is vacant and the deficit in Cádiz is, therefore, above the Andalusian average.

are also above that average

: Almería, where 7.7% of the workforce is missing;

Córdoba, where another 8% is missing;

Jaén, with a 10.2% deficit, and Seville, where the percentage of vacancies is the highest in the entire community, with 11%.

The secretary general of Jucil, Ernesto Vilariño, has emphasized the contradiction that this staff deficit supposes with the security problems that the body faces in Andalusia.

"These shortcomings make it difficult to fulfill all the services provided by the Civil Guard in Andalusia, a community that has also been compromised this year by

, such as the increase in violence in drug trafficking organizations based especially in the Campo de Gibraltar area, and by the increase in the arrival of immigrants in waves that are difficult to control with the scarce means, both personal and current materials, "he pointed out.

The situation in Spain

The panorama, in terms of the deployment of troops, is not better in the rest of Spain.

In fact, according to the Jucil data, throughout the country there are more than

and the deficit is especially bloody in communities such as Catalonia and the Basque Country, where the percentage of unfilled places reaches 22 out of every hundred.

In

, of the 4,068 civil guard positions there are, 886 are unfilled and almost half of them are in Barcelona, ​​where the staff deficit is more serious.

In the Basque Country there should be 3,083 officers from the armed institute assigned to their barracks, but there are only 2,402 officers serving.

Madrid

also does not escape the problems of lack of personnel, with 2,479 vacancies, but there is not a corner of the country where the workforce is one hundred percent covered.

In addition to the problems of staff deficit, there are also those derived from the

that Jucil also denounces.

"We still do not have individual bulletproof vests, even in times of pandemic we have to share these elements, during 2021 we demand anti-theft covers for our weapons and we will continue to claim it, as well as one-person cameras that record our interventions and, among many other things, a normative change that definitively withdraws the antiquated application of the Military Penal Code to our police actions and to our civil life ", Vilariño concluded.

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