The PSOE of Santa Cruz will present a motion in plenary tomorrow in which it endorses the conclusions of the report on psychosocial risks of the Local Police of Santa Cruz and that show a worsening of the situation of the agents with respect to the last study carried out in 2017. The socialist councilor Florentino Guzmán Plasencia will be in charge of presenting a document in which the agents have expressed the excessive workload they bear due to the lack of personnel or the low value they feel is given to their work.
The motion includes the points that the report points out as necessary to improve the situation of the agents, such as completing the workforce, improving the workplace or providing the positions that are still not covered, all framed within the definition of a model police for the Santa Cruz body.
The situation in which the staff of the Santa Cruz Local Police has been subjected to evaluation to know the psychosocial risks that it faces, with results that show a worsening with respect to the last evaluation carried out in 2016, and which then led to the commissioning of an external study to find a way to reduce these risks. Five years later, issues such as workload, despite the incorporation of new agent promotions, have worsened, going from 42% who said they were in a very unfavorable situation to the current 51.8%. The same occurs with the section related to the organization and control of immediate superiors, which has gone from 78% to 84% of dissatisfaction, or psychological demands, which have also worsened significantly, with more than 40% acknowledging a situation “very unfavorable”.
