This Wednesday, a call through social networks put the State Security Forces and Bodies in check in the face of a possible massive jump in Ceuta. Alert that, finally, came to nothing, but that put the precarious situation in which the agents find themselves assigned to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Precisely, in recent days several police unions denounced that the Government, through its Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, had the intention of reduce Police Intervention Units (UIP) destined for these areas.
Specifically, these groups, which currently have 50 agents each, would have only 15 police officers.. But, “for what operational reason has this reduction in numbers occurred? Does it have anything to do with the lack of liquidity in the police stations’ paying funds and the difficulty in paying the subsistence allowances of the members of the UIP? Can Marlaska guarantee that the reduction of UIP members deployed in Ceuta and Melilla does not endanger public safety nor will it lead to an increase in crime?”… these and other questions They are part of a PP campaign, started on October 2 in the Congress of Deputies, to try to obtain a response from the Executive.
Not in vain, we must remember that the problem of the paying funds to which this political formation alludes affects all the police stations in Spain, which are in an extreme situation. There is no money for accommodation and travel expensesthere are no funds to cover the basic expenses of the police stations and much less for repairs, no matter how urgent they may be… and the only justification that the agents receive from the General Directorate of the Police (DGP) and the Ministry of the Interior is that everything happens because The Budgets for 2025 have not been approved and public accounts are extended.
Agents pay their per diem out of pocket
The DGP budgets include an item for compensation for reasons of service. From here comes the money to pay for subsistence, transportation, transfers, advances and other compensation. And although there are no budgets, The amount allocated for this year was the same as in 2024: 52.76 million eurosso it is not understood that there were no problems that year and this year a collapse of these dimensions occurred.
However, the group led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo goes one step further and asks Marlaska if he is aware that a large number of agents are seen forced to pay the allowances out of their own pocket for displacement, the reimbursement of which takes several months. “What do you plan to do about it?” they ask.
At this point, they also propose another option: that the problem is not money and that this reduction in numbers has other motivations. In this case, if the reasons were “operational”, they ask what they are and what effects they will have: “The units present will be sufficient to prevent and, where appropriate, oppose an assault. to the border fences with Morocco? Is the ministry aware of the large number of protests that are taking place at this time in Morocco and the possibility that, as a result of them, increase pressure on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla?
Needless to say, migratory pressure is not the only problem that plagues these areas, where The fight against drug trafficking and organized crime has become a real scourge. For this reason, they are addressing the Executive to find out “first-hand” whether the rest of the Police units deployed in Ceuta and Melilla will be affected.
In short, the PP questions “to what purposes the Government has allocated the funds planned for the extraordinary services that involve the displacement of said Units to Ceuta and Melilla.”
Agitators on social networks
For their part, Vox also wanted to take sides on this problem and have registered a question in the Congress of Deputies to find out what measures the Executive has planned to “prevent and stop” the massive assaults on the Ceuta fence. In this sense, far from reducing (as has happened with the UIPs) they wonder if the Government plans increase the presence of the State Security Forces and Bodies in both autonomous cities.
And the formation led by Santiago Abascal also echoes the calls on social networks, such as the one produced this week, in which they urged a massive jump to the Ceuta fence. Thus, they ask the Executive what measures or actions it has planned to “detect content on social networks that incite or promote illegal immigration”.
The objective is to detect the promoters of these calls on social networks, who encourage people to cross the border in groups. And one of the factors that most worries the State Security Forces and Bodies is the “viralization” and the speed with which these mass jump attempts can be organized.