Antonio Blanco Madrid

Madrid

Updated Wednesday, March 27, 2024-00:11

Several agents of the Local Police of San Sebastián de los Reyes have protested in front of the City Hall demanding a series of improvements in their conditions. The police officers, through the Municipal Police Union (UPM) union, indicate that

their agreement has not been renewed since 2018 and their circumstances have not been negotiated

"neither with this Government nor with the previous one."

Silvia Díaz Boj, general secretary of UPM in San Sebastián de los Reyes, tells GRAN MADRID that they gave a settlement period to the new Executive: "We are not saying to negotiate everything in two months, but that at least a calendar be set." Likewise, the police agent affirms that

"the Sanse Police is the worst economically in the entire Community of Madrid"

and denounces the lack of troops: "Some retire and others go to other municipalities. The last promotion was an injection, but like a patch.

The union denounces the shortage of human resources:

"There are days when there are only two patrols for the entire municipality, including the urbanizations

. "

San Sebastián de los Reyes, according to data from the INE, has a population of approximately 92,000 inhabitants. As for those urbanizations adjacent to the town, there are some such as La Granjilla or Fresno Norte.

Díaz asserts that, through social networks, accusations are made between parties that

some of the police agents "have entered out of favor"

: "It focuses on a political level: first, those related to Perdiguero (previous councilor) and now that he has The PP came in, to them. Let them leave us alone. That we are police. I don't care what government team is there. Each one has the affinities that they consider appropriate. As a union we don't care, we represent the Police. They use us as a throwing weapon. For this reason, we maintain that we have to be at the service of the citizen and not the politician.

The union association shows

great concern due to the dissolution of the canine unit

. The two dogs died, but three more were already being prepared to serve and speed up the process. "From one day to the next, the Security Councilor informed the main commissioner that the unit was provisionally dissolved." According to UPM, the actions of police dogs have considerably reduced municipal crime. They highlight that they registered about 250 complaints for narcotics, as well as preventive action work, in areas such as parks and gardens. "The dog goes where we can't go," they say.

For his part, the Councilor for Security, Carlos Bolarín, emphasizes to EL MUNDO that if the statements of the police union were true,

"not eight people would have demonstrated, but the entire staff"

, made up of 132 agents. «Such information only serves to generate alarm in the population and does not correspond to the truth. Although there are many improvements to be implemented, this Government has been in office for eight months and it is impossible to have made more improvements in less time," adds the mayor.

Likewise, Bolarín's cabinet emphasizes that

San Sebastián de los Reyes is one of the municipalities with the highest security ratios at the national level

. For its part, the Ministry of the Interior, through its crime balance in 2022, indicates that Sanse recorded 4,253 crimes.

Some positive statistics compared to Alcobendas, a neighboring municipality, which has a thousand more crimes than San Sebastián de los Reyes in the same period

. "There will never be politics, misunderstood, with something as serious as Security

," they say from the San Sebastian City Council.