The overflow of work in the macro causes linked to drug trafficking could lead to the fact that many of the cases under investigation could end in prescriptionTHE paralysis or to important things penalty reductionssince the Courts from the province of Cadizespecially the mixed ones and those of Campo de Gibraltar, Barbate and Chiclana de la Fronteraare “overwhelmed in work volume.
This is what the Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla Public Prosecutor’s Office, who warned in his Report 2024corresponding to the 2023 financial year, that the “overwhelmed” situation of the courts, as well as the “anachronism” of the procedural system, “give rise to major delays which give rise to the paralysis of causessometimes reaching the prescriptionor via the mitigateoften highly qualified, in important positions sentence reductions“.
Similarly, in the Memory maintains the request already presented in previous reports to classify as a crime the transport or the tank of gasoline (petaqueo) whose possession is not justified according to the administrative regulations that must also be reviewed.
Similarly, the Prosecutor’s Office calls for increased penalties for electricity fraud linked to drug trafficking crimesnow punished by fines “which are not paid by the convicted persons”, or rather by an aggravation when the aim is the commission of an offence.
On the other hand, he indicated that in Cadiz were initiated in the Provincial prosecutor’s office (with the three district prosecutor’s offices) 34,452 preliminary procedures, which represents a decrease of 15.6% compared to those initiated in 2022, while they had already increased by 13% compared to those of the previous year. Regarding abbreviated procedures, they amounted to 5,330, which represents a decrease of 12.9% compared to the previous year.
For its part, with regard to emergency procedures in Cadiz 9,313 were initiated, compared to 9,226 in 2022, which represents an increase of 0.9% and consolidates a growth dynamic. There was also a notable increase in the initiation of minor crimes, with 11,696 compared to 3,346 the previous year, which represents 249.6% more.
The total score increased by Cadiz Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2023 to 11,179, which represents a slight decrease compared to 11,543 in 2022. Qualifications in urgent proceedings were 6,600 compared to 6,658 in 2022, in summary proceedings before criminal courts they were 4,092 compared to 4,369 the previous year and before the Provincial Court 360 versus 391.
Another of the questions raised in the Memory for the 2023 financial year indicates that the province of Cadiz presents a notable increase in crimes of sexual freedom that exceeds 16%, in which the observed increase in procedures initiated for rape stands out.
