The police officers assigned to Presidency of the Government Commission, in the La Moncloa complex, They denounce the working conditions in which they are forced to work day after day. “It’s a punishment to work here. It’s a destination that colleagues avoid and those who are there try to leave as quickly as possible,” report anonymously some police officers interviewed by OKDIARIO.
Those responsible regret that lack of troops in this police station is at the origin of the demotivation of police officers who can neither take advantage of the vacation days to which they are entitled by law, nor take days off from their work on Friday or Monday to participate in a long weekend and go see their loved ones, in the case of those who are from outside Madrid.
They also criticize the deception they experience when they do access the course for this destination. “For two weeks they promise you that you will be an escort, but the reality is different, they are waiting for you three or four years of kidnapping in this police station”, they add.
In this sense, the agents of the National Police of La Moncloa explain to this newspaper that, when you finish this course, they make you sign a contract by which they oblige you to spend 3 years in this position without having the possibility of moving in internal. . inside the same police station. “Once you pass this deadline, your options are daunting. “Either you stay at the Presidency police station or you have to leave Madrid,” they said.
Indeed, the police officers assigned to the Presidency, while they can already participate in general merit competition (after 3 years), they must choose a destination outside this community because they cannot be made available to the headquarters in Madrid, which implies that they cannot choose a destination within this autonomous community .
The police report that “it’s a punishment» be stationed at the Moncloa Presidency police station and that, precisely because of all of the above, this police station is the one with the fewest personnel in the Corps. This means that they cannot enjoy the corresponding Christmas or summer holidays due to staff shortages.
“The ground is sinking”
On the other hand, those affected condemned the conditions in which security checkpoint access to La Moncloa where they work. “It’s anything but security because the ground is sinking.» This space, according to the agents, does not respect adequate security conditions, both in terms of health and risk. “Some colleagues fell several times due to the state of the ground,” they say. To solve it, the superiors installed a patch where the damage is located but which presents the same poor conditions as the ground itself.
Additionally, only one officer works at this security checkpoint when, by law, there should be two people. “For security, we must work as a couple, but here we are alone all day and the nearest companion is about 300 meters away. If something happens to us, we are sold.»
For all this, the police sent numerous letters to prevention of occupational risks but since the last letter, dated July 27 of this year, they have received no response from La Moncloa.
Finally, the union of these police officers denounced that the few internal positions that they call once a year to be an escort or to access the counter-surveillance group (GOAC), the underground, the information group or operations special safety conditions, are given by free designation, that is to say “by finger and by plug“. And they add: “It’s very difficult to get a place because there are 30 or 40 people who show up and very few get a place, maybe one or two.”
The “crab”
On September 13, a young man threw two spider crabs through the fence in La Moncloa while shouting “!”take crab, usurious melons!”, in order to recreate a famous scene from the television series, ‘The one who comes’.
As we can see in this video from YouTube that the protagonist himself published two days later, the objective was to protest against the government’s economic mismanagement, Pedro Sanchez.
At first the young man wanted to throw the crabs at the main entrance to La Moncloa, but after being spotted by several police officers, he finally decided to go to a parking lot adjacent to the A-6. Subsequently, he fled with the companion who was recording him.
After these events, the Security Department decided to increase surveillance and establish a service post at the new main access gate to the complex in order to carry out preventive visual control of people and vehicles accessing the complex through said access.
According to the order sent by this service, the agents must make a cross-sectional surveillance. Among the duties of the officials is that of “preventing, deterring and intervening in the event of a threat to the security of the complex which could come from outside”; “obtain information about vehicles or people on foot attempting to gain unauthorized access to the premises”; and “verify that occupants of vehicles accessing the visitor parking lot next to the main control, once parked, access the main control building,” according to the letter sent from Moncloa.
