In June 2023, the first deputy of the Ombudsman, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril, reported through a letter that the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, which is directed Anticipate the retirement age of national police. An ad that was not further, since 20 months later nothing is known about that report nor of its possible conclusions.
In that letter, they indicated that the process was “in the processing in accordance with what is indicated in Royal Decree 1698/2011, of November 18, which regulates the legal regime and the general procedure to establish reducing coefficients and anticipate The retirement age in the Social Security System “. He also stressed that the ministry had initiated the “studies on sinisterity, pain, danger and toxicity of the working conditions of the collective of officials of the National Police Corps, their impact on the processes of labor disability of the workers and the physical requirements required for the development of the activity, Como Prerequisite to the application of reasons that include early retirement For this group. “
Finally, he promised to “find out” why there was not yet an answer. And that is still the situation today, because more than a year and a half after that statement, the agents still do not obtain any response. This has been denounced from the Police Union Equiparación Ya (Eya), in a letter sent to the Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez, in which they remember what established article 11 of the aforementioned Royal Decree: “The Secretariat of State for Employment will carry out a mandatory study and inform The union organizations the results in order to formulate allegations“
Retirement at age 59, with 100% pension
At this point, in the absence of information, the union, chaired by Natan Espinosa, requests to know “if the studies on accidents, pain, danger and toxicity of the officials of the National Police Corps and in the event that They would have started, In what state they are to recognize the pensions of the national police officers as the rest of groups already considered a risk profession. “
And why this report is important, because the consolidated text of the General Social Security Law contemplates The possibility of lowering the minimum retirement age by Real Decretoy through reducing coefficients for those professional groups or activities “whose work are exceptionally painful, toxic, dangerous or unhealthy and accuse high rates of morbidity or mortality. “A crossroads in which the agents have been engaged in the Executive for years, who refuses to recognize the National Police and the Civil Guard as risk professions, while Mossos, Ertzainas and local police do They are part of that catalog.
The Government plays the dismissal with the agents and blocks any political initiative to the extreme. So much so that this Wednesday The PSOE again blocked and request another postponement for the presentation of amendments to “the proposition of the Law on the Modification of Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of October 30, which approves the consolidated text of the General Law of Social Security, in order to include the Members of the National Police and Civil Guard Corps, and the Customs Surveillance Service officials, within the groups that enjoy reducing coefficient of the retirement age due to the danger of his work “. And with this postponement they are already 21 The occasions in which the Executive has delayed this procedurewhich generates “frustration” and “outrage” among agents.