Neither bulletproof vests for agents, nor anti -tame gloves, nor táser guns … The priority for the General Police Directorate (DGP) are “The Gabardines” of the high command. The Interior Ministry, led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will allocate 626,000 euros at the purchase of 1,830 gabardines to “protect the controls from cold and rain in official acts.”
As explained by the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP), these gabardines will be only for the Police of the upper scale and chief inspectors. Specifically, 1,200 for men (although there are 1,628 companions of that sex) and 630 for women. This is stated in the tender, which also includes 1,611 currency pairs for that garment. Of these, six pairs will be for the Operational Deputy Director; 15 for the three general deputy directors; 30 for the eleven chiefs of division and general commissioners and 60 for the twenty superior bosses.
But beyond the figures, from this police union Ironize with the idea of who may have considered that this garment is “essential.” They point out that Ministerial order regulating uniformity of the national police dates from 2014 and It does not include gabardine. “Maybe someone has taken a decade to realize that this was essential and they forgot in their day,” they point out from the CEP. And they wonder if the corporate jerseys or jackets that are already included in their endowment “are not enough to shelter in official acts.” And at this point they question that This decision goes beyond sheltering the controls and that the real motive is “aesthetic.”
And they put a fact on the table, the less relevant. And they have not even tendered gabardines for all chief inspectors, so it seems that They differentiate between colleagues “first and second”. But what most outraged the agents is the scale of interior priorities because “in this body many things are still needed” and the first, in their opinion, “is what saves lives.” From the CEP they insist that “The urgent is what protects who plays it in the street. That the essential is what reinforces the safety of the classmates “and if there is a budget for that, then,” go ahead with everything else. “
The “tricks” and interior strategies
Although in this tenders you also have to “trust” much of the interior, according to their latest “trick”: buy four -year material to make up the data, while continuing to comply with the Occupational Risk Law. It is just what has happened with the announced acquisition of 4,760 comprehensive vests of public order. “Far from providing media agents to protect their lives, at a time when the attacks on the police have shot themselves, they decided to divide this acquisition four years (2025-2028). only 1,190 units would be distributed a year.
From the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) they consider that this movement is nothing but the “how much cost to make a real, powerful and definitive effort to protect the police.” And, if the deadlines are fulfilled, the agents of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) and of the Prevention and Reaction Unit (UPR)“They would not have their integral vest for two years”.
It should be noted that the tendered quantity is insufficient and that the goal of combining in a vest “so many functions” also obeys the search for lower costs by the ministry led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska. However, we must not overlook another important detail that appears in that memory of the General Directorate of the Police, which refers to “compliance with occupational risk prevention.”
Táser and Personal Recording Chambers
This new interior strategy has a reflection, not only in this “Comprehensive Public Order” contract, but in other purchases of material such as Táser and Personal Recording Chambers. As explained from the CEP, currently The National Police has 1,600 electric immobilizers, An ridiculous figure if we take into account that there are 72,000 agents in the body. Well, from the DGP they announced The purchase of another 3,500 toás guns, amount that remains insufficient and that will also be of immediate delivery. The purchase is in four years, so agents will receive 700 each year.
And the same goes for the Lack of personal recording cameras, 4,000 today. The General Directorate of the Police announced the acquisition of 7,000 new devices, between 2025 and 2028. An expense of 10.38 million, which will not cover the needs of the agents. “The figure remains insufficient to guarantee the legal certainty of the police in many interventions in which it would be vital to be able to register what happens,” they insist from this union.