He police union JUPOL have shown their support for the National Police officers that last Wednesday intervened in an anti-drug operation in Tenerife that ended with eight detainees and shots at their dogs. They defend the police action by ensuring that “they had to act in self-defense against three potentially dangerous breed dogs that attacked the agents.”
They affirm that one of the policemen was injured by a bite from one of the dogs and, in turn, another of the dogs had to be killed by the agents in order to “guarantee the physical integrity of the policemen.”
They have opined that the operation “strictly complies with current legislation and existing police protocols in the National Police.”
As denounced by the union organization, “after the police action there has been an indiscriminate attack against the police on social networks; attacks against which, once again, neither the General Directorate of the Police nor the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, have spoken out and before which once again the agents of the National Police have been left to their fate and without institutional support.
The union says that from the first moment “it has made itself available to the police, putting all the necessary support at their service, its legal cabinet and the psychological cabinet.”
They conclude that these events and others similar could be avoided if the Government, the Ministry of the Interior and the DGP had not left them in “a situation of helplessness, abandonment and lack of protection”, and had “worried” to carry carry out the three demands of the union in this sense: the distribution of Taser pistols, the updating of the National Shooting Plan and the implementation of a psychological and legal assistance service for national police officers involved in this type of situation.
