The National Police templates throughout Spain are in a limit situation due to the collapse of the paying boxes. There is no money for accommodation and displacement diets, there are no funds to cover the basic expenses of the police stations and much less for repairs, however urgent they are … and the only justification that the agents receive from the General Directorate of the Police (DGP) and the Ministry of Interior, directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, is that everything happens because Budgets for 2025 have not been approved and public accounts are extended.
However, this argument is not supported. From the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) explain that the DGP budgets include a party for compensation due to service. From here, the money to pay diets, transport, transfers, advances and other compensation. And while there are no budgets, the amount destined For this year it was the same as in 2024: 52.76 million eurosso it is not understood that this year there were no problems and this year there is a collapse of these dimensions.
Nor did these types of setbacks emerge in previous years, with very similar figures: 52.8 million in 2023; 51.3 million in 2022; 53.4 million in 2021 or 56.2 million in 2020. For all this, from this police union they wonder “What has the money spent money?” For months, the agents have denounced that the absence of liquidity in the paying boxes, forces them to advance money from their pocket to pay the accommodation and maintenance in the official displacements.
Marlaska “Wash your hands”
“Enough of incompetences,” they demand from the CEP, which ensures that the time of excuses and promises has already been overcome, so interior and the general direction should end this nonsense. “Yeah They go by official car; If they do not pay a single euro of accommodation and maintenance (and do not sleep in pensions or eat snacks or menus of 12 euros); If they do not have to scratch their pocket to travel … you can’t afford a minute more than intelligence and professionalism continue to be offended of a whole body, “they say.
The last example of “this nonsense” has had in a place in Vigo, where several units of the National Police have attended to participate in the previous and central events of the custodian saints. There, the agents have been at the mercy of the goodwill of the hotel in which they are housed that, “carrying ten”, has allowed the payment to differ. And, while “Worst Minister of Democracy (Marlaska) washes his hands”, Agents live with anguish any official trip for which there is no money.
From the General Police Station of Citizen Security, they insist, as they point out from the Spanish Police Confederation, in which The money “must come” and that there are “eleven million euros about to be admitted” these days. But this situation is unsustainable, “it cannot be, it is not serious,” agents underline. Because no police should have to pay a work trip and less for the lack of forecast of those responsible, they argue.
And they conclude: “If there is not enough credit due to lack of foresight, They must roll heads. If the problem is another, I must explain it. “Everything else, in his opinion, is” cheap talk “that anyone is believed anymore.
Frozen diets for 20 years
Accommodation, maintenance, use of private vehicle, fuel …. Agents’s diets are the same since 2005the amount of them has not suffered any variation. A situation that becomes unsustainable, if we stick to the current and high cost of life. Specifically, up to 212% more. That is the difference between what a hotel room costs on average (153 euros in August) and what a police officer has to pay That accommodation in an official displacement (48.92 euros). And the diet by maintenance is not much better either: 28.21 euros daily for breakfast, food and dinner.
From the ministry that directs Grande-Marlaska, it has been argued that Those diets “cannot be touched” Because Royal Decree 462/2002, which establishes these amounts, affects the entire public service. But as they have indicated on some occasion from the Spanish Confederation of the Police There are “alternatives”and they can be launched as already done in 2004 and 2010.
Namely: article 11 of That royal decree does cover to raise the amount of diets at some times of the yearfor example, more if it fits the increase in housing prices in hotels. From the CEP they already pointed at their day that this was already done and “allowed the police not to suffer hardships for doing their job for seven years.” Moreover, they point out that the CECIR, an agency that approves these measures, agreed in 2010 that the ministries could propose this increase in diets for “exceptional reasons.”