Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The Unified Police Union (SUP) has demanded that the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, “do not hide in his office” and publicly protect the police officers who shot several dogs that they were attacked during an anti-drug intervention in Tenerife in March, and that they are being “harassed, singled out, threatened and vilified” by activists on social networks.
Police officers are victims of insults and threats and their affiliation information is being disseminated, which endangers their honor and their lives, but also that of their families, warns the police union in a statement.
That is why he has written to Pestana because, from his point of view, until now the government delegate “has remained hidden in his office instead of coming out in defense of those over whom he exercises direct command.”
The SUP recalls that the policemen used their firearms to defend their lives against the attack of dangerous breed dogs when they were going to arrest an alleged drug trafficker.
“In order to avoid arrest, the now alleged drug trafficker released his five dangerous breed dogs at the police, causing them bite injuries to the head and body, which is why they used their firearm to defend their lives,” he says. the Union.
The SUP calls for institutional protection because “defending this action is defending the proper functioning of public services and functions that guarantee public order in society.”
With the “omission” of his support for the agents, the Government delegate “is sowing the most dangerous seed”, because the policemen who find themselves in similar cases in the future may decide not to act forcefully and then they have to “regret the death of a human being”, says the SUP.
This union announces that it will appear in the criminal proceedings that are followed for these events and will proceed to denounce “all those who harass our police officers in any way through social networks.”
But they also demand “the public defense and without ambiguity of the police action by the Government Delegation”, so that “all public doubts about the legitimacy of the use of a firearm when an animal of these characteristics attacks a being is cleared up.” human”. EFE