He Unified Police Union (SUP) of the National Police exploded against the agreement between Bildu and the Government to reform the Law for the Protection of Citizen Security approved in 2015 by the Popular Executive of Mariano Rajoycalled the Gag law by left-wing parties: “Disobedience and attacks against agents of authority cannot be encouraged from a legal text.”
Spokesperson for the United Police Union, Nadia Pajarónindicated that they were “head-on against this reform”. And the SUP believes that the legislative modification seems to be “written against the police more than to promote the proper exercise of their function”.
Pajarón also recalled that the reform was carried out “originally” without counting on “the collaboration of the forces and state security bodies”. The main grievance of the agents is the lack of “legal guarantees for the development of the police function for the thousands of national police officers who work every day on the front line in the fight against crime”.
“Instead of reinforcing the principle of authority, this contributes to encouraging behavior contrary to the law,” Pajarón said. This reform of the law on citizen security would deprive “the police of one of their main tools”, says the SUP. The union spokesperson stressed that “a legal text cannot favor disobedience and the attack on law enforcement officials whereas what we seek is to strengthen the punishment of these criminal behaviors.
“It also harms citizens”
But he specifies that this “harms not only the police”, but “also the citizens”. According to Pajarón, Spaniards “would suffer from a deterioration in the quality of service that the national police provide daily in their streets to guarantee and preserve their rights and freedoms.”
On the other hand, they recall from the SUP that the restriction on the use of rubber bullets was already regulated in a standard “concerning the situations, proportionality and their correct use”. They therefore consider that this limitation “is another stick in the wheel of public safety and policing in situations where they want to push back particularly violently on our streets.
Pajarón also alluded to the banning of the so-called hot returnswhich are the returns of immigrants to the border immediately after their arrival in Spain. In this matter, our country is already subject “to different legal frameworks, both national and international”, declared the SUP spokesperson. These are standards which “already take into account these hypotheses and adapt them to the standard implemented for the entire territory”. Schengen Area and the signatories of the latest regulatory text on immigration in the European Union. Therefore, the reform agreed by the government and Bildu would also be unnecessary and counterproductive in the eyes of this association.
The situation has set off all the alarms in the police unions. So much so that from SUP, they announced that they were going to sell “every possible way» so that the text agreed by the nationalist left and the executive of Pedro Sánchez “does not go forward and, on the contrary, the national police has a legal framework that protects it against impotence and loss constant of power. principle of authority“.
