By Natalia G. Vargas(Now.Plus) / DA The fugitive councilor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Evelyn Alonso, has mediated between a hair surgery company and the unions of the Local Police of the capital of Tenerife to sign an offer for the agents. On May 17, she sent an email to the union representatives in which she explained that a clinic had contacted her to offer the security force an agreement that the National Police and the Civil Guard already have. “Whoever is not interested tells me, because I will call a meeting with the owners in my office so that they meet them and sign the offer,” reads the text to which she has had access Canary Islands Now and who has published the opposition on social networks.
For 2,700 euros, the company offers a free consultation, a platelet-rich plasma treatment, a hair transplant of up to 4,500 follicles, anesthesia and the COVID test prior to surgery, hair care products, monthly follow-up, four reports quarterly doctors and patient care for a year. From the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife they assure that “there are several companies that give discounts to officials”, not only to those of the capital corporation. “It’s quite common,” they point out. However, so far they have not answered questions about how the agreement came about, if the offer has already been approved or why the company contacted Alonso directly.
For its part, the company initially agreed to offer a face-to-face interview with this newsroom at the entity’s premises. A few days later, he refused the interview, justifying that the request for information made is in the hands of the company’s legal department.
“I wish he cared the same about ballistic vests, that more than a hundred colleagues still don’t have them and carnivals are already here,” criticizes the delegate of the Central Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants (CSIF) in Santa Cruz of TenerifeJesus Illada. The union has sent a letter to the director of the Citizen Security and Mobility area of the City Council, Gilberto Leandro Hernández, to report on “this breach”. “If an agent can’t protect himself, how can he protect others?” Illada questions.
The opposition has reacted to the controversy. “Are you worried that the police in your municipality do not have a dream hair? That suffering is over! In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the councilor Evelyn Alonso works, together with private clinics, so that your favorite agent has that transplant that will leave him so well. Of the rest of the needs…”, published the socialist councilor of the City Council Tino Guzmán.
In May, the CSIF sent another letter criticizing the supposed “political use” that the refugee councilor makes of the Local Police. “Wasn’t there an agreement not to show the faces of the local police officers in the photographs? We once again disapprove of this dissemination of images looking for a measly political gain, ”said the union in relation to some photographs published by Evelyn Alonso on her Twitter profile with which she congratulated the agents for her” excellent work ”of her .
The union has demanded that the mayor of the capital of Tenerife “adopt the pertinent measures to eradicate the disrepute and continued attack” on the services provided by the agents. In addition, the CSIF points out that “the political use” of the Local Police force by certain members of the local corporation calls into question “before public opinion the impartiality and ideological freedom” of the staff.
