His name is Eduardo and he has been a local policeman in Güímar for 15 years, from where he has wanted to leave for a year “for my health”, recognizing that he does not have good relations with his superiors and, above all, with the councilor for the Security area, Cándido Gómez, whom he accuses of “hiding the request for commission of services that I have been presenting since September, without the municipal secretary knowing anything about the matter,” he said. Eduardo has been out for six months “due to anxiety” and regrets that no one attends to his demand, without even being a CSIF union representative in the Local Police.
The service commission is a resource that Local Police officers have to change the municipality, but it is discretionary, not mandatory by the Administration, because it could be the case that a city council runs out of staff with the best salaries or conditions in other consistories. Güímar currently has 18 agents when by ratio it should have almost 50. Right now he has a selection of five places and in the internal competition he held in 2019 for two officers, Eduardo achieved third place, but when one of them resigned, They did not give him the status of officer, which is still vacant, because “they will want it for one of their own,” he says. In addition, there is the circumstance, according to he says, that one of the policemen is the one who carries out the security plans of the municipality and does not act as an agent in uniform, given the paradox of the lack of personnel of a Local Police that has been in trouble for a long time. interns between commanders and political positions.
Eduardo denounces that since he requested the commission of services to Tegueste – although he would not mind going to Arafo, where he lives, to Candelaria, San Miguel or wherever – they have made his life impossible. An accidental officer even classified him as “lazy” and no colleague wants to patrol with him, he says. They have even forbidden him to process the reports because “he is always reading the newspaper,” as he complains. He also complained that before taking the leave they sent him only night service to the coast or “sometimes they left my car without diesel.”
Since September, when he presented his first instance for the commission of services, the mayor Cándido Gómez only answered the one presented in February, as indicated. Then he told him that he had to bring in another policeman to dismiss him. A new agent arrived, but it was not worth it. “You have to bring it,” replied the councilor. When he managed to convince another colleague to come to Güímar, he despaired at the delay in answering and so until today, in which Eduardo continues to be mired in “an anxiety” that prevents him from working. Since then he has not met with the councilor and when the mayor interceded, he replied that he was meeting with him, but without the presence of the mayor.
Eduardo has not only placed in the hands of his union the “harassment” that he claims to have received for a year, but he also receives the assistance of a psychologist and a lawyer to get out of Güímar as soon as possible, “wherever”, because he is your health at stake. For now, he is still on leave, waiting for that “saving” commission of services to arrive.
