On January 18, 2019, the Council of Ministers gave a green light to a investment of 600 million euros to reform and modernize the buildings of the National Police, the Civil Guard and the Secretary of State for Security. An ambitious plan whose deadline expires this year and has barely covered expectations. The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, seems to have been choking the so-called Security Infrastructure Plan, since if we take as reference the works ended in the National Police, It has only managed to finish 45%.
Thus, despite The investment of 273 million assigned to this bodythe level of Budget execution is 63%more than 19 points below that achieved at the Armed Institute. This delay, in the opinion of the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP), is the reliable evidence of “how bureaucracy can run a good initiative.” But what most attracts the attention of this police union is that, despite this data, Marlaska has had repairs to attend an act in the Zapadores police complex, in Valencia, for Remove chest from your “star plan”. “We have changed the physiognomy of the barracks and police stations throughout the country,” said Interior head.
“It is a full rule failure, which affects the work of the police,” they sentence, since they are forced to serve facilities and buildings in a state “deplorable and shameful”. Because the works carried out as soon as they amount to 23% of the budget for the National Police. At this point, from the CEP they ensure that given the low degree of commitment from the interior, the possibility of having a Second Infrastructure Plan seems impossible. And all this despite the fact that the General Directorate of the Police (DGP) confirmed to this union that the plan had already been developed and was waiting for approval in the Council of Ministers. That has been a year and a half ago.
At this point, agents claim Marlaska “more facts and less advertising. More commitment to the police and their professional rights and less pumper “. They demand the Interior headline to” tighten the accelerator “and complete the pending works. In addition, they consider urgently to take the second version of this infrastructure plan to the Council of Ministers to be able to finish those actions that do not have sufficient financing.
Only fifteen works finished in six years
In these six years, The number of works finished is striking: fifteen. A figure that does not leave in a very good place in the interior but has allowed or dispose of two new provincial police stations (in Soria and Cuenca); two local police stations (in Puertollano and Ribeira); the Comprehensive Reform of the Central District Police Station (in Madrid); Reforms in several central agencies (such as the General Sub -Directorate of Logistics and Innovation, the General Judicial Police Police and the International Cooperation Division) and Peripherals (the Superior Police Headquarters and the Free Zone Police Complex, both in Barcelona; and a new Office of Complaints and Citizen Attention in Córdoba). In addition, they have been carried out Several actions at the National Police Schoolsuch as the shooting gallery, the stand of the athletic track, the fence and a new video surveillance circuit.
On the other hand, according to the CEP, Ten are the works that are ongoing, without finishing: three new local police stations (in Andújar, Puerto de Santa María and Yecla); a new district (in Córdoba); as well as reforms in different police buildings in Madrid and Vitoria; the construction of a new headquarters for the Special Operations Group (Guadalajara); The reform of the Police Complexes of Zapadores (Valencia) and General Mayandía (Valencia) and various improvements at the National Police School (Ávila).
Finally, Interior maintains eight works that are not even tendered and that, therefore, they will not come true for the moment. These are four new local police stations (Mahón, Villarreal, the Line of Conception and Estepona); two provincial police stations (Jaén and Almería); A new district police station in Moratalaz (Madrid) and a macro technological building to be built in the Canillas Police Complex in Madrid. Among them, as they point out from the Spanish Police Confederation, some such as Mahón or Villarreal They do not have sufficient credit In this infrastructure plan to materialize, so your future viability is compromised.