The Municipal Police unions have denounced a possible case of abuse of authority by the Chief of the Local Police of Coslada, Gabriel Ángel Cerrato, after a slight blow suffered by his son when he was driving his car, a BMW, through the town and had a brush with a van.

Coslada's command sent a Municipal Police car to the scene with a single agent, a corporal, after his son called him saying: "Dad, send me a patrol."

"That someone could have a simple sheet metal scrape with their car or van while driving around the city could be normal, but

what is not so normal is using disproportionate human resources and resources in the face of a slight blow that is solved with a simple friendly accident part

", point out from CPPM and CCOO.

The mishap happened on February 1 at around 11:00 a.m. on Calle Puerto de Valencia, 8, located in the El Puerto neighborhood.

Around that time, a construction material delivery van backed up in a slow maneuver and

very lightly brushed the front end of a BMW vehicle

driven by a 23-year-old young man.

When he got out of his van, the transporter noted that the damage to the car was minimal.

However, the young man behind the wheel of the BMW alleged that other damage observed on the hood of his car had also been caused by the impact or friction of the delivery vehicle.

The delivery man maintained that the dents were previously and that he had given a light touch to the bumper

or front part without affecting the hood.

In a word, the transporter immediately suspected that the motorist wanted to "use him and took advantage of the occasion so that the insurance company would fix the entire hood of his car, since, according to what he verified, it was already damaged."

Put to take data to inform the insurance and make a friendly accident report, the driver of the BMW, not seeing the transporter convinced to assume all the damages that he wanted him to recognize, began to keep his distance and talk to him about you and

told him that he knew what he was doing, since he was a local police officer in Torrejón de Ardoz

, according to the carrier's version.

The driver of the van, very respectful, replied that "better this way because

as a policeman he would know that before the insurance he had to declare the real slight damage and not add other existing ones

".

Given that, suddenly, the driver of the BMW picked up the mobile phone and undisguisedly called a person saying: "Dad, send me a patrol", turning out that the driver of the BMW was the son of the Chief Intendant of the Coslada Local Police Gabriel Ángel Cerrato Pedroche, and the person he called on the phone was his father.

The young man from the BMW has also been a local police officer in the town of Torrejón de Ardoz for a few months.

A few minutes later, a radio patrol from the Coslada Local Police arrived with a single component, turning out to be the officer (corporal) in charge of tomorrow's shift, proceeding to fill out an accident report with the corresponding reference in which it is assumed that there was a record of the incident. slight accident as well as the damage to the BMW without the driver of the van, much to his regret, being able to see what was really reflected in it.

"

No other service patrol car in the area or the crowded team

that always appears in any accident that occurs in the population went to the place," according to the complaint of the CPPM and CCOO unions.

Union sources point out that "it is not normal or usual for an accident report to be filled out by the Municipal Police in the event of such slight and almost non-existent damage when the two drivers have the documentation in order and there is no added complication as in this case."

They also point out that it is rare for "a patrol car to go to an accident with only one uniformed component, even if it is minor, but there are always two."

"That

it is also not common and rather it is exceptional that the chief officer of the service or on duty goes to prepare a traffic accident report,

If not, the van from the crowded team should go and in case they are busy in another accident, another patrol comes and spreads said part, "they add. The driver of the van, according to the Municipal Police unions, is He was very surprised by the situation experienced and by the actions of the Coslada Police officer who came to the scene.

A spokesman for the Coslada City Council confirmed that a car from the Municipal Police went to the site of the mishap, since at first

the carrier refused to give his documentation to the other driver

and that he went into a store without paying attention to the young man who He was driving the BMW vehicle that was owned by the head of the Coslada Local Police and that, indeed, his son was carrying.

Likewise,

the City Council denied any case of abuse of authority

in the intervention.

The Consistory clarified that the driver of the BMW requested the intervention of the Local Police when he saw that the carrier was not collaborating and that perhaps he could leave.

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