The Victims of abuse They have telematic bracelets have suffered this last year the uncertainty of the failures of these devices. Many of them anonymously express their discomfort due to the lack of self -criticism of the Ministry of Equality. The reason has accessed the testimony of several of those affected that he constantly called 091. “My abuser was in front and no alarm jumped,” he warned.
These women want to stay in the shadows for the fear they live with. “We have enough and we have suffered when we were called crazy for constantly calling us to complain about the service deficiencies“, explains one of these victims. At first, I did not want to use this bracelet but ended up yielding for the pressures of their loved ones who sought to preserve their integrity.
The history of the victims
“A double victimization,” laments this young woman. He spent sleepless nights while the alarm did not stop sounding. He also witnessed moments of tension when a day after returning from work he saw the “abuser in front of her” through the window. He warned the police and told him that it was impossible because “no alarm had jumped.”
Despite this, room 091 sent a patrol car for its insistence and confirmed the girl’s version. His ex -partner was breaking the restraining order. “The bracelet had not sent any alert to the victim or the police,” he insists.
Another testimonies of the victims stated that an abuser manipulated the device and broke it so that he could not communicate anything. The victim denounced him but the UFAM of the National Police had not received a single report in the system.
“For months I thought I was protected and was not really“, says this woman who now lives with permanent tension. The spokeswoman of the Unified Police Union (SUP) Nadia Pajarón explained that there were devices that did not work for three days.
Reduce the level of risk of victims
One of the collateral damage of this circumstance is that when carrying this type of bracelet, the police lower the level of risk to the victims and the protection measurement are smaller because it is understood that it is already “Under control”according to police sources to La Razón. With this new scenario, there are many voices that consider that interior should rethink this protocol.
On the other hand, the failures of the bracelets have also carried problems to the abusers. Cases have been detected in which the aggressor himself receives false positives. “For example, through Comet Center We are informed that your device appears as separated from the bracelet, which would mean a possible breach of condemnation. At that time it is immediately called to warn him and ask for explanations, because if it were true, he would have serious consequences. And the answer we have received is that the aggressor carries the bracelet put, the device with him, and shows us calling us from the terminal they have given him, “these police sources explain.
Then, it is this man who has to contact the Comet Center to show that everything is correct and that the alert was false. “They have even transferred situations in which, having loaded the device Completely in the early hour, they are downloaded before the end of the working day, forcing them to interrupt their work to recharge it, “they add.
And it should be remembered that these devices “are not for Stigmatize the abuser nor to hinder his work: his only purpose is to give protection to the victim. “” But with these failures they do not fulfill one thing or the other. And the most serious is that, meanwhile, the victims are still at risk, “these police sources conclude.