Seville, (EFE).- The Parliament of Andalusia has approved this Thursday the local police law, which will allow city councils to allocate up to 20% of vacancies to access seafaring and troop professionals with more than five years of service and it obliges municipalities with more than 5,000 residents to have a minimum of five agents.
The norm has been approved with the only votes in favor of the PP and the rejection of the PSOE, Vox, Por Andalucía and the Mixto-Adelante group.
The new law will affect the almost 10,000 local police officers that exist in Andalusia. Its objective is to increase the current level of coordination and will incorporate approved procedures and technical means that adapt to technological progress. And that will allow a better response in the functions of the bodies, according to the adviser to the Presidency, Antonio Sanz.
The counselor, who has maintained that the law settles an outstanding debt of more than 20 years with the local police officers and places this body in the 21st century, has rejected the opposition’s criticism of lack of consensus. And, in fact, he has highlighted that it is one of the “most participatory” with the incorporation of 78 amendments, 26 of them compromised by the groups.
Most modern law in Spain
“It is the most modern law in Spain, the most advanced and progressive. That includes the collaboration with the town halls ”, she has indicated. In addition to highlighting that small municipalities will have police officers, which “increases” their stability and security.
According to the counselor, the norm includes the unified call for employment, the reduction of procedures. The commitment to joint patrols and the reserve for the military who meet the requirements.
With the approval of this law, Andalusia “will be safer and more security and rights are granted to local police officers. And the technical means are improved ”, he insisted.
Despite having incorporated some amendments to the bill, all opposition groups have agreed on the “lack of will” of the PP to accept their proposals. And they have criticized the parliamentary “roller”.
The socialist Irene García has not hesitated to point out that the law is a “lost opportunity” due to the “irrationality” of the PP in “refusing” to improve it, for which she has blamed the Ministry of the Presidency.
“The law required a greater consensus, but it has been impossible. It is not new, nor avant-garde, nor a reference, and it does not adapt the local police to the new security conditions”, García warned. That he believes that it is a “minimum rule that violates” the powers of the municipalities by “not” guaranteeing sufficient funding.
Nor does it convince Vox, whose deputy Benito Morillo has argued that the text is full of “ideological biases and flirts” with inclusive language. At the same time that he has questioned the “little” will of the PP for the agreement.
pay equalization
Morillo has reproached the PP for not having accepted the equalization of the local police with the rest of the security forces and has called it “very serious irresponsibility” that the law “contemplates” one-person patrols that “attack” the safety of agents and people .
This type of patrol has also been rejected by the deputy spokesman for Por Andalucía, Juan Antonio Delgado, who has considered the content of the law “manifestly insufficient” by “not adapting” the body to new technologies “nor guaranteeing” financing for municipalities .
“It leaves too many things in the pipeline, it is not modern, it only convinces the PP and goes against the criteria of the police unions,” said Delgado, who believes that one-person patrols pose a “danger” to the agents and seek to alleviate the ” lack of staff. EFE