The Ministry of the Interior will maintain its position Spanish Embassy in Poland the inspector of the National Police of Valencia found guilty of having attacked two agents of the Local Police of Valencia Benidorm until the disciplinary file is completed, which will be opened when the final nature of the sentence is communicated.
He Supreme Court (TS) ratified a few days ago the sentence of JMMC and the sentence is now final, as reported exclusively by EL ESPAÑOL. But the police officer could present an extraordinary appeal for protection before the TS so that the file can be re-examined.
For this reason, the Interior will not act until the criminal proceedings have been definitively exhausted and the disciplinary file which will be opened when the final nature of the resolution is declared.
This was confirmed by sources from General Directorate of the National Police to questions from this newspaper. For the moment, the agent will continue to be stationed at the Spanish Embassy in Warsaw and with the same functions.
JMMC appears as a member of the Office of the Interior Attaché at the embassy located in Warsaw, according to the website. From 2022, the ambassador is Ramiro Fernández.
The convicted police officer was one of the leaders of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) of Valencia, also known as riot control, and is the partner of the ultra agitator. Cristina Seguione of the founders of the Vox party.
The Offices of the Interior Attachés, under the hierarchical dependence of the ambassador, depend organically and functionally on the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for their internal organization and their budgetary allocation.
Positions in embassies are generally among the most requested by agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard of the Ministry of the Interior. The juicy salaries are a big incentive for the agents, depending on the relevance of the capital in which the selected official ends up landing.
In most of these destinations, the minimum wage is generally around 10,000 euros per month. Danger or distance premiums contribute to increasing this figure, which in certain regions of the world can exceed 20,000 euros per month, depending on the sources consulted.
In embassies, police officers act as liaison between Spain and the police authorities of the country in question, but they can also provide protective functions in public buildings.
Initially, this police officer was sentenced to three months in prison by the Criminal Court number 3 of Benidorm as the author of an offense of attack against a law enforcement officer, in addition to being considered the author of two minor offenses of injury.
But the convict appealed the sentence and the Alicante court reduced the sentence by eliminating the offense of attack against an agent of authority and partially granting his appeal in a sentence handed down last March.
Finally, the Court removed the prison sentence and established that the inspector was responsible for an “offense of resistance to agents of authority provided for and punished by article 556 of the Penal Code”. The agent was sentenced to a three-month fine with a daily allowance of 6 euros, “maintaining the rest of the decisions”.
Today, the Supreme Court rejected the last ordinary appeal of this National Police agent and the sentence is now final. But he could present an extraordinary appeal to have the Court review his case, an option that would buy him time.
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The disciplinary offenses that members of the National Police may incur can be very serious, serious or minor. Sanctions range from termination of service to suspension, transfers or loss of paid days.
In the resolution by which the procedure is initiated, an instructor and a secretary will be named, responsible for processing them.
The appointment of instructor will be made by a public official belonging to an organization or to a group level identical to or higher than that of the accused. If the appointment falls to a civil servant of the National Police Corps, he must, in all cases, have an identical or higher category than that of the civil servant who is the subject of the file and, if it is the same, he must occupy an earlier number in the ranking. list.
In addition, any official assigned to the Ministry of the Interior can be appointed secretary.
The facts for which the inspector was strongly condemned occurred on August 10, 2018 in Benidorm around 10:50 p.m..
That day, Benidorm local police officers carried out an intervention with the accused who was “on leave with two colleagues”.
Apparently, the patrol showed up at her location in response to a call from a taxi driver who was “upset and threatened” by the inspector.
“Being affected by the previous consumption of alcoholic beverages which diminished but did not cancel his cognitive and volitional capacities, they asked him to identify himself, which the accused refused on several occasions,” according to the Benidorm court.
After an argument, “the accused with the intention of physically harming him and, ignoring the principle of authority, he threw himself at the local police officer, giving him a slap which also made him fall to the ground, at which point his companions intervened to reduce the now accused, using force to do so. minimum essential”.
