The Interior Ministry has allowed 80% of administrative sanctions to lapse, in line with police unions | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The public security legislation consists of offences such because the use or possession of weapons, drug use in public locations, injury to public furnishings or disobedience to legislation enforcement officers. But these behaviours should not all the time punished: from September 2023 till May of this 12 months, the Department of the Interior of the Generalitat has allowed 81% of the executive sanction reviews imposed by safety forces to run out or expire, as reported this Monday by the bulk union of the Police (SAP-FEPOL) and the Mossos d'Esquadra (SME-FEPOL). The basic secretary of the SAP-FEPOL union, Pere Garcia, has harassed that the wrongdoer of the reviews remaining with out the corresponding sanction is the change within the process promoted by the previous minister Joan Ignasi Elena. Given the failure to handle the sanctions, the unions have despatched a message to the newly appointed Minister of the Interior, the socialist, Nùria Parlón: “We ask the new minister not to see us as an enemy, but as the useful tool that we are, to listen to us in order to understand the priorities of public safety and not live in a parallel reality built on her political priorities,” warned the secretary.

Last September, Elena, who was Interior Minister till this Monday, carried out a “more neutral and guaranteeing” system, she stated, for the administration of the sanction reviews imposed by the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Guardia Urbana and different police forces. Processing and making use of the sanctioning recordsdata was within the arms of the seven territorial providers depending on the Interior Department – ​​the unions level out that they’re “political positions appointed by the minister” – as a substitute of remaining below the jurisdiction of the 9 regional workplaces of the General Directorate of Police (SARP). In May, the unions requested Interior for reviews on the recordsdata they’d opened. The Mossos and the Police denounce the dearth of exercise by the Interior providers to detect infractions: between September 29, 2023 and May 31, 2024, 11,975 recordsdata have been opened (1,497 recordsdata per thirty days), whereas the Police providers, throughout the identical time period, opened 3,019 per thirty days (27,169 between January 1 and September 28).

The most related knowledge, nonetheless, doesn’t seek advice from the opening of recordsdata, however to their processing and the imposition of the corresponding sanction: when the administration has been within the arms of the Interior, 81% of the recordsdata opened have expired, virtually 60% extra (23%) than when it relied on the Police. “What good has the police effort been if behind it there has been an absolutely deficient, disastrous and irresponsible administrative management, which has caused most of the files to come to nothing?” harassed García. The unions remorse the financial efforts deployed by the Department of the Interior to place an finish to narcotic substances or weapons on the highway as a result of “8 out of 10 files have ended in nothing.” The report estimates the worth of the almost 45,000 police actions within the matter of the removing of weapons and substances that haven’t come to fruition at multiple million euros.

The injury goes past the budgetary “waste”. In phrases of income, the Generalitat has failed to gather, in line with these calculations, 5.6 million euros for all of the fines that haven’t been paid, at a price of round 300 euros per sanction, a collateral impact to which the unions add the injury to civic training. “Whether by action or omission, the Department of the Interior has stopped performing a function to which it is obliged by law. The department has attributed to itself a power that it does not have, processing a report of a complaint observed by the police forces is not a discretionary act”, García has assured.

The unions denounce the Interior Ministry's failure to adjust to its obligation to course of the hundreds of reviews which have resulted from the efforts of hundreds of cops, and demand that the brand new minister instantly name a gathering of the Police Council to offer them with the information that they made public on Monday and have requested that she return to the earlier system. In addition, they underline the “extraordinary delay” of the Interior Ministry in offering them with the information (they requested it in May). This newspaper has tried, with out success, to contact the communication officers from Elena's time in an effort to evaluate the information and procure the opinion of the Interior Ministry: “They are no longer working.”

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