In recent months there are many occasions in which the Civil Guard has suffered the government’s bundle. Loss of skills by the assignive assignive to the desires of its independence partners (Junts, EH Bildu, ERC …); Abandonment of the Ministry of Interior, directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in the absence of means to face the fight against drug trafficking or the serious migratory crisis that Canary Islands. And thus endless blows that cause the outrage and discomfort of agents.
“More and more cases are in which The Civil Guard loses essential functions: Event security, traffic, fiscal and borders, Seprona … Is it a coincidence or a political strategy? ” The Civil Guard (AUGC), Pedro Carmona.
The spokesman for this association recalls that after the tragedy of the Dana in the Valencian Community and Castilla-La Mancha, The civil guards were “relegated from their competencies in citizen security” in the affected populations, despite this body who holds the powers in those cities. It should be noted that in November last year, they already denounced the TRANSFER, “Apparently Arbitrary”of powers in favor of the National Police in some of these areas. Thus, this decision, far from facilitating emergency management, weakened the deployment and effectiveness of security and protection devices to those affected. Therefore, they described This “political decision” of “nonsense”.
Recurring pattern: Remove the Civil Guard
In his argumentative thread, Carmona also loads against the last interior decision of “separating” from his tasks to the Civil Guard in the Carnivals of Tenerife. “Without interior justification” and “with thousands of people in the streets”the ministry directed by Marlaska withdrew the agents, which, in his opinion, shows that There is a recurring “pattern.” From the AUGC, they wonder who gave that order and based on what criteria the National Police were ordered to assume the functions that the Civil Guard has by territorial competence the rest of the year. Issue that, for the moment, still does not answer.
Controversy is also the loss of traffic competitions in Navarra or ports and airports in the Basque Country, in this case in favor of Ertzaintza. It must be remembered that in the middle of the December bridge, the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, put his rubric at the service of EH Bildu and ratified, through the Official State Gazette (BOE), the expulsion of the civil guards of Traffic in Navarra .
Not to mention the last attempt of the Galician nationalist bloc (BNG) to create their own Galician police and throw the National Police and the Civil Guard from Galicia. Aspiration that on Tuesday threw the PP on the ground, when voting against.
The case of Catalonia, says the Secretary of Communication of AugC, is different. And is that “The expulsion of the Civil Guard has been running for years”with the “reduction of troops” or their exclusion in key areas such as the prosecutor, ports, airports, maritime security and Seprona. From this association they have repeatedly denounced this “Political derives, based on unjustified assignments” And they have demanded an immediate rectification and the cessation of this “Undercover dismantling “ of the competencies of the Civil Guard in Catalonia.
For all this, Carmona makes clear that “These decisions are not isolated facts” and that the progressive loss of skills of the armed institute is due to a “clear pattern, that favors the dismantling of the Civil Guard“And he asks:” Are we facing a deliberate plan where you seek to weaken the Civil Guard and make it disappear? “