Yolanda Diaz asked the Interior Ministry Fernando Grande Marlaska which incorporates “gypsy” advisors to determine police actions within the system of gender-based violence VioGen. Specifically, Add registered a proposal in which it is planned that a team “composed mainly of women of the Roma people” will design the algorithm that determines the actions within this system.
However, even if the formation of Díaz introduces ethnic and socio-economic criteria for the components of this committee of experts which determines the actions of the State security agencies and forces In cases related to gender-based violence, it does not specify any type of legal knowledge or training in police procedures.
The VioGén system was launched on July 26, 2007 with the objective of predicting risks to ensure the monitoring and protection of victims throughout the national territory. This system uses an algorithm activated when a woman reports a case of gender violence, assessing the risk through a questionnaire filled out by security forces.
“For women to come and ask for help or denounce it, we must correct the failures and errors in the system for protecting victims of gender violence. To ensure prevention is effective, women must feel protected, supported and safe from start to finish,” Sumar’s proposal states.
To reverse this situation, Yolanda Díaz’s training offers “introduce algorithmic procedures designed by a multidisciplinary and diverse team composed mainly of women, of diverse origins, from the gypsy people and different socio-economic backgrounds, which allows the VioGén system to suggest probabilities of suffering economic, sexual or psychological violence, as well as as well as other offenses such as harassment.
“Tackling gender-based violence in Spain requires continuous action based on rigorous analysis and data-driven decision-making. Only through a multidimensional approach to all forms of violence, their causes and effects, can we design effective prevention, protection and support strategies,” the training states.
For this reason, Sumar also proposes “to evaluate the VioGén system to propose more elements allowing more effective detection of risks, as well as to apply the corresponding protective measures”. Thus, the risk will be determined by the analyzes and suggestions of this “diverse group” marked by social and economic criteria and not by the mechanisms detected by the police or the courts on the basis of statistics or objective evidence.
VioGen data
The Ministry of the Interior detected in the VioGén system, as of September 30, 99,644 active cases of gender violence, including 1,058 at high or extreme risk. The department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska collects figures for cases of gender violence recorded by VioGén in which there is a risk for the minor children of the victims.
Specifically, Interior data shows that as of September 30 of this year, there were a total of 99,644 active cases of gender violence, of which 12 are at extreme risk, 1,046 at high risk, 15,350 at medium risk, 44,013 low risk and 39,223 are not appreciated. . Interior data also reveals that as of September 30, there were 1,684 cases of minors at risk of being assaulted by their mother’s attacker, including two at extreme risk, 134 at high risk and 1,548 at medium risk. They also show that there are 106 cases with minors in situations of high and extreme vulnerability -104 and two- and 1,541 on average.
