Local police in Los Alcázares denounce the lack of human and material resources that this Corps is suffering, which, added to the terrible management carried out by the Chief of the Local Police, makes it impossible to provide a quality public service to citizens and puts serious danger to the integrity of workers.
To the tremendous shortage of troops, already chronic, it must be added that the Chief of the Local Police refuses to reinforce the services, with a single patrol for the entire municipality in most of the shifts, with no other resources to draw on in case of need too often.
Los Alcázares is a municipality of about 20,000 inhabitants in winter (such as Alhama, Archena, Jumilla, etc ..), and in summer the population rises to 100,000 inhabitants (Lorca, Molina de Segura), and, however, even in During the summer period, a single patrol is maintained in most shifts due to the refusal of the Headquarters to implement reinforcements with more agents without apparent concern for the attention needed by residents and holiday makers or the integrity of their subordinates.
In addition, agents have to act on the street without receiving information about the incidents that occur in the municipality, such as thefts and occupations of homes, without guidelines or data for years.
Neither are there protocols for action, legislative news is not reported and standardized models are not implemented, agents have to use each of their models of attestations and look for ways to update their knowledge in the face of changing legislation, finding themselves on more than one occasion alone and without guidelines from Headquarters to act.
A total abandonment of the template by the Boss, who has left the staff at the feet of the horses in their management, which is, in conclusion, that each one of them can manage as best he can.
After several months ordering a multitude of indiscriminate controls and without purpose, guidelines, or planning that is known, the agents asked that the number of troops in the execution of these devices be increased, to be able to do them with minimum security conditions, both for the policemen like citizens.
After several writings, requesting information on these controls and if they had the authorization of the competent Councilman for it, the Chief of the Local Police has chosen to eradicate them completely from the police activity, which leads us to conclude that those were not necessary or that its legality and justification was doubtful.
In addition, agents must support a heavy workload that leads to high stress and anxiety that triggers in the summer with 100,000 people in the village, having to endure even working conditions that cause a serious breakdown of the work-life balance and family, with frequent changes of shifts and schedules, again because of the inefficient or non-existent planning of services, which are carried out with very poor material means: stations and computer programs that do not work, shortage of vehicles ... Neither the promise of a phone with a data line for a year is fulfilled, having the template to use their own mobile phone for legal consultations on the Internet, (any teenager has a telephone line, but these police units have not yet reached these technical advances ).
With a total divorce between the staff and the Chief of the Local Police, the coordination of services is non-existent and professional communication is conspicuous by its absence, not even to address emergencies such as torrential rains that this town has suffered in 2016 in which The Chief of the Corps did not appear (we think that maybe he would be planning the measures for the following rains, since, in short, these last rains had already fallen).
This is a slight brushstroke of the situation suffered by the staff of the Local Police of Los Alcázares for the ineffectiveness of the Chief of the Local Police and also suffer residents and residents of this municipality, it is a real shame that citizens have to to support a service of this quality due to the bad management of the public service of the Local Police, who is in charge of it.
From the Provincial Executive of the Professional Union of Local Police and Firefighters (SPPLB) we believe that you can not ignore the complaints and the discomfort of the staff of the Local Police of Los Alcázares, seeing how the agents are not able to attend, in a reasonable time or with the appropriate quality, the needs of their neighbors, the operatives being at a negligent level of response capacity and putting their own personal safety at risk because of so many nonsense, all because of the terrible management of the Body that carries out the Headquarters and that makes it work as if we had gone back to the 80s.
Source: SPPLB