Seville, (EFE).- Andalusia has 1,305 active protection and distancing bracelets by the Gender Violence Courts, 36.3 percent of the national total, which stands at 3,600 devices, and 22 percent more than in the same month of 2022.
According to the data made public this Sunday by the Government Delegation in Andalusia referred to at the end of April, Almería is the Andalusian province with the most activated bracelets, with 282, which represents 21.61 percent of the total of the autonomous community, for ahead of Granada, which has 268 (20.54%) and Cádiz, with 246 (18.85%).
Below the two hundred cases appear Jaén, with 160 (12.26%), Córdoba, with 149 (11.42%), Málaga, with 136 (10.42%), Seville, with 49 (3.75%). and Huelva, with 15 (1.15%).
Also with reference to April, the Comprehensive Monitoring System for Gender Violence Cases (VioGén System) had registered 21,011 cases of sexist violence.
In Andalusia there are 242 municipalities that are part of the VioGén System, 30.8 percent of the 785 that make up the community and 34.1 percent of the national total in the System, which rises to 708.
The VioGén System centralizes and manages all the information coming from the complaints made for cases of gender violence through the State Security Forces and Corps and integrates Local Police forces.
Telephone 016 for information and advice
In addition to the bracelet, women victims of sexist violence have the 016 telephone number for general information and advice, including legal advice, which in April received 1,038 calls in Andalusia, 4.7 percent more than in April 2022 and which represents 13 percent of the national total, 7,958.
A third way of protection is the Atenpro care and protection service through an electronic device with geolocation and an emergency button for active user victims.
As of April 30, it registered 3,323 performances, 8.3 percent more than in the same month of 2022 and 19.17 percent of the national total, 17,327 assists.
The rate of active users of this service in Andalusia in April was 897.2 per million women aged 15 or over, above the national average, which was 824.2.
The delegate of the Government of Spain in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, has said about sexist violence that “the objective is to continue forward until eradicating it from our society and achieving effective and real equality between men and women”, a job that, in In his opinion, “there is still a long way to go and for which education and the union of institutions, civil society and political parties are crucial.” EFE