The agent has been suspended for ten days as the author of a serious offense, as typified in the Disciplinary Regime of the National Police.
The State’s attorney reports that the agent, while Out of servicewent with a friend to a hotel complex in San Miguel de Abona, in the south of Tenerife, to claim a personal loan that he had with one of the employees of the establishment.
The controversy arises because entrance exhibited his professional card and the plaque that accredits her as a member of the National Police, despite the fact that she had gone for a matter that had nothing to do with her profession.
Once inside the premises, he located the employee and asked her to return the borrowed money, starting a discussion inside a changing room that he had previously requested, alleging that he was going to give the hotel worker “official documentation” that was actually non-existent.
Those responsible for human Resources from the hotel then realized that an altercation was taking place. The deputy cleaning lady and the security controllers had to separate the two women, who started a tough confrontation. They then asked the police agent to leave the hotel along with her companion and the establishment’s workers urged them to resolve their personal problems elsewhere.
The agent argued that at the time she had already been acquitted by a final sentence of a crime of coercion and believes that the events were no more than “a minor incident that in any case should not be considered a serious misdemeanor but rather a minor one.”
He defended that there was no conduct contrary to freedom or the protected legal right, “but a simple debate or dialectical confrontation”, for which reason he does not understand how an alleged violation of police duties has occurred, as attributed to him.
However the TSJC believes this acquittal is not directly related to the facts but to the criminal proceedings, and on the contrary, it is considered that all the requirements are met to estimate that there was a serious infraction.
All this in terms of the fact that “there is no doubt” that the agent asserted her status as a police officer, claiming that she had to access the premises to solve a matter that was actually of a private nature.
The judgment it is firm and the agent must also pay 500 euros for legal costs.
