The Ministry of the Interior allocates 1,234,200 euros for the purchase of at least 15 mobile radars for the vehicles of the Civil Traffic Guards. This is stated in the award documents of a contract that is justified under the premise of providing the agents “with the appropriate means to control speed in the most effective way possible with the acquisition of dynamic (mobile) cinemometers for the different units of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard”.
To one side are the complaints of the agents regarding the lack of personnel, of technical means (without bulletproof vests and obsolete cars), the refusal to recognize them as a risky profession either the refusal to equate their salaries with that of mossos and ertzatinas…the ministry headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska is concerned that the agents cannot “comply with the purposes entrusted to them,” as stated in the letter, and that it seems that this is none other than collect money in finesin addition to guaranteeing the safety of the rest of the “drivers who circulate on the road network.”
As stated in the contract, awarded to the company Tradesegur SAU, and made public on the Public Sector Contracting Platform on March 2, Each cinemometer will cost 68,000 eurosso the total amount would amount to 1,020,000 euros. Figure to which 21% VAT must be added (214,200 euros). Specifically, the General Directorate of Traffic determines that “the kinemometers suitable for dynamic speed measurement and with a current type examination, issued by the Spanish Metrology Center, are the Jenoptik/MRCD 2.0 and the Jenoptik / Multaradar C/TCV.”
His “justifying report” for this contract, which will not be extendable or modifiableInterior sells the benefits of these “dynamic” and “effective” radars. Furthermore, they boast of their “advantages”, since “in addition to their functionality in static mode, they allow their use in dynamic (mobile) mode, especially on roads with a high concentration of vehicles such as highways or highways, where The location of other types of cinemometers can be dangerous. for the operators themselves or for Road Safety and, therefore, they are an important complement to the speedometers placed in cabins or gantries”.
For all this, they consider it more than necessary to have “high-performance radars, capable of measuring the speeds of vehicles in several lanesboth in approach and in distance, with respect to the cinemometer, and that can be used in various modes of operation, static or dynamic (mobile)”.
Marlaska’s contempt
And in the face of the greatness of technology, the hardships of the agents. Because in this matter of “disdaining”, the Minister of the Interior is an expert. To the problem of shifts, the marathon days or the lack of means and personnelare joined by many others that affect the agents and that seem to affect Grande-Marlaska little or nothing. This is the case of the equalization or recognition of civil guards as a risky profession, demands stopped and blocked by Sánchez’s minister not only in the courts but in Congress. Far from providing anything new or supporting the agents’ request to recognize the “high hardship and danger” of their workthe Directorate of the Civil Guard limits itself to saying over and over again that “the technical tables” are open. About the salary difference between civil guards and mossos or ertzainas… not a word.
It should be noted that in the case of retirement, as they are not recognized as a risky profession, civil guards cannot take early retirement at 59 years of agecollecting one hundred percent of his pension. An option that can be taken by agents of the Ertzaintza, the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Foral Police of Navarra or even local police officers.