It is not the first time (it will not be the last) that the Ministry of Interior has tried “Make up” crime data To cover a reality at least “worrying”, as explained the most of this: agents. Thus, it is not surprising that after the figures of the first quarter of this year make public, their response is that these data “suffer more cooking than the Tezanos CIS.”
But beyond irony, these data show a nothing flattering reality, as they assure from the Police Justice Union (Jupol). Because the crimes of greater serious and that more social alarm generate continue to increase. The Dentery homicides in attempted degree are triggered by 19.9%; Sexual aggressions with penetration increase 7.6%; Serious and less serious crimes of injuries experience a 2.1%rise; and Drug trafficking, among others, experiences an increase of 4.9%.
And it is precisely at this point where it is convenient to focus attention, since, far from trying to stop this worrying increase, the Ministry of Interior, with Fernando Grande-Marlaska in front, chooses to work with their backs to the police. Needless to take a look at the controversial instruction 7/2025 that has caused so much stir and that prohibits agents to sanction those people who consume drugs in a parked vehicle.
Contempt for police forces
This measure not only does not reinforce control against drug consumption and trafficking, but “weakens police action, transmits a message of permissiveness and normalizes the consumption of narcotics in public spaces,” they say from this union. Moreover, they accuse the executive of “promoting a regulatory relaxation that endangers police and citizens“. Because this rule, they insist, is based on a” tortic, manipulated and partial interpretation of several sentences of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. “The Ministry of Interior” not only despises the work of police forces “, but dares”False the sense of firm judicial resolutions to legitimize an ideologized and dangerous instruction. “
Severe crime does not stop growing, they explain from Jupol, and the answer cannot be “hiding reality under makeup figures, or legally disarm those who are on the front line. The police need more protection, no more instructions that make their work difficult. ” It is not updated since 2008as well as guarantee a sufficient endowment of troops in the most sensitive areas. Not to mention the most urgent need for Recognize national police as risk professionals.
Thus “the government the government resolutions”
In the most recent case, that of instruction 7/2025 on the possession and consumption of drugs in parked vehicles, the Executive refers to several sentences, which have been analyzed by this union. In the first one, the Supreme Court Judgment STS 1317/1999, of September 21, explain that Interior “has intentionally ignored” an essential foundation of right in which The intervention of agents in private vehicles is supportedeven if that implies a certain affectation to privacy, provided The action is providedadequate and justified for the sake of citizen security. Therefore, they emphasize that “the ministry extracts what interests and omit, with premeditation, which reaffirms the legitimacy of police action. “
In the second sentence, STS 569/2013, of June 26, interior directly omitted that the alleged intrusion into intimacy It was not carried out by authority agentsbut by an individual, which completely invals its use as a legal basis to limit or condition the police action. “It is a gross and unacceptable manipulation“, stand out from Jupol.
And in the third sentence, the 170/2013, of October 7, of the Constitutional Court, the Ministry incurs, in its opinion, in An even more serious “misrepresentation”since the prosecuted facts have nothing to do with vehicles or drug use in them. The sentence refers to Surveillance through private security camerasso it is not applicable in any way to the casuistry that aims to regulate this instruction.
In short, they consider that instruction 7/2025 is not only legally defective, but also “morally reproachable, when relying on falsehoodshalf truths and deliberate concealments. “They insist on what the Executive and its Grande-Marlaska Minister should do is”modify the law, harden it and clearly establish the behaviors that must be persecuted and penalized. “Because everything else is nothing more than an exercise of” institutional cowardice and the absence of functions. “