He General Merit Contest of the National Police of 2025 It reveals that the assignments of competencies to Catalonia and the areas whipped by drug trafficking have left many places in the body deserted. “It’s a punishment template”police sources indicate to reason that regret that the new promotion that swears its position at the end of this will not be able to complete this quota.
The personnel division issued on April 28 the list with the deserted squares that the body has in the different points of Spain. They are a total of 3,367 police, 387 officers and 501 sub -inspectorsaccording to the resolution to which the reason has had access. More than a third of them (1,285) are in the city of Madrid, a circumstance that is due to the fact that the large part of the central services are located in the capital.
A large part of this figure will be completed when they swore their position, at the end of May, the members of the XXXIX promotion that are assigned 2,456 places. However, its landing in the different police units of Spain will not mean that the templates are completed, and, much less, in the areas where its troops have been reducing for years.
The assignments of competencies in Catalonia
In this way, one of the regions that most punished for the National Police is Catalonia whose superior headquarters has 416 police vacancies, 49 officers and 72 sub -inspectors. Likewise, the border post of the El Prat de Llobregat airport needs 280 seats of the basic scale, 11 officers and 16 sub -inspectors. The total added They are more than 1,500 throughout the region.
“Those who come here are the new jurors. Almost anyone as a volunteer. The minimum essential time passeslike everyone else, and then they go to other templates with an easier movement. We are seeing that people are not waiting for a year to go to their land, “he laments in statements to La Razón, Iván Álvarez de Jupol Barcelona. One of the sensations they have is that they are a” punishment template. “
One of the proposals that could make this destination more attractive is the “plus” that would generate being considered a special singularity zone. “There is no incentive to come to Catalonia”he adds.
Narcos attacks
This salary complement has also been repeatedly claimed in Andalusia areas that are whipped by drug trafficking. Precisely, one of them, Algeciras, has more than fifty vacancies in their ranks. Experts point out the “Lack of institutional recognition” as one of the key points. The Gibraltar field area is one of the most hostile territories for agents that are seen in the spotlight for these criminals.
“It is a clear synonym that we are talking about a province that is not at all like the police to develop their work, since, among other things, we have a serious situation with the issue of drug trafficking, organized crime and irregular immigration,” says Javier Calero de Jupol Cádiz. There are many fronts that have to assume.
“The cases of threats and extortion suffering numerous companions in their personal life by organizations are known. The exponential increase in hashish traffic and that right now we are the entrance door of cocaine throughout Europe,” he argues. “We are practically becoming a province that is under the control of a narcoeconomy”continue.
The problem of the Balearic Islands
In addition, from Catalonia and Algeciras another of the places most punished by these vacancies is the Balearic Islands that has a global computer of 427 national police. “Have A deficit of more than 400 agentswe are a community with a floating population for eight months and we are at the head of crime according to the Ministry of Interior, “says Chechu Enrique, regional secretary of Jupol Baleares.
“The problem of insularity is known by all politicians and None does anything to alleviate itit cannot be that anyone wants to work to Balearic Islands, there is no affordable housing, the shopping basket is the most expensive and the pillars of well -being is security, “he lists. Precisely, these problems share them together with their Civil Guard partners. And it is that in these islands there is a position that has the greatest number of vacancies of the armed institute.