Lack of foresight, planning or “fudge”, either as it, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has caused again Chaos in the National Police. On this occasion, those affected are the agents in charge of conducting the new comprehensive documentation vehicles (Vidoc), the mobile units that go through the municipalities facilitating the Obtaining the passport and the ID to those citizens who cannot move to a police station.
These vehicles are part of a Government’s star plan, which seems not to see the light at the end of the tunnel. In 2023, the General Directorate of the Police (DGP) He spent 3.7 million euros on the purchase of 80 vansdestined to the issuance of ID and passports in rural areas throughout Spain. Investment that did not include the adaptation required by the National Currency and Timbre Factory, whose value amounts to 14.74 million euros. And it is at this point, as they point out from the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP), where “everything starts to twist.”
The modification of these vans causes that Its weight exceeds 3,500 kilograms And that, as they point out from this police union, has consequences. The first one is the need to standard them, to obtain the public transport card of goods (MDP) that allows its circulation. The second, fully affects agents who They are forced to have the driving license C1since with the B they cannot drive vehicles of that weight.
Abandoned to your fate
Well, as reported from the CEP, the police have become alone in this process. Far from trying to solve this situation, Interior has abandoned the agents in a kind of “there you manage”. Thus, the half a hundred “companions” that have recently examined the theorist to obtain the C1, “almost all of them They have not been able to overcome that theoretical part“They denounce not before influencing the” null support “received from the DGP and Interior.
It should be noted that during this process and until the police get the pertinent permit to conduct these vans, vehicles have been immobilized and unable to pay attention to the thousands of citizens residing in villages and rural areas. And this process, in addition to further delaying the implementation of the project, could significantly increase public spending, which once again doubts the management of the Ministry of Interior throughout this matter.
Therefore, from the National Police Confederation claims to the economic and technical division that “the necessary measures are adopted so that Getting that permission is not a Calvary“They demand” less obstacles and more ease of working “and above all, that adapt that process to police reality.” It is A too expensive project And very necessary for problems in their execution to end up spoiling something that is useful for colleagues, “they conclude.