The unions present in the Local Police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ASIPAL, CCOO, CSIF, Intersindical Canaria and UGT), have denounced publicly the attitude of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council for “discredit” to the body of professionals after what happened on September 29 in the so-called Pisaca’s Fest.
The union organizations affirm that given the situation, the Local Police only had knowledge of it through a service order that literally dictated “frequent tours” of the area; as if it were a low-dangerous event and given that, with the shortage of personnel suffered by the Local Police, “the security of said event could not be covered without establishing an extraordinary device that required the commissioning of personnel on duty. rest, something that did not happen,” they say.
The union organizations affirm that the Local Police only became aware of this party through a service order that ordered “frequent tours” of the area; as if it were a “low danger” event.
However, with the shortage of personnel reported by the Local Police, “the security of said event could not be covered without establishing an extraordinary device that required the commissioning of personnel on a rest day, something that did not happen,” they say.
The unions assure that said event was suspended because “their security measures were widely exceeded due to the excess capacity, and due to the situation described, which resulted in exposing the minors present to extreme risk situations.”
Given this, the inspector responsible for the Ordinary Service Unit, because there was no reinforcement of the Police service, “as all unions demanded on July 30, 2023, at the request of the district councilor, in addition to ordering the suspension of the event”, wrote a police report detailing each of the provisions regarding event security, as well as the actions carried out by the Police Force.
“What is surprising, and what we denounce, is the administration’s intention to discredit the police report, a report with a presumption of truthfulness made by an impartial party such as the guarantors of municipal security, which is not a party and is unquestionable, compared to “that of a private company with obvious interests and bias, to which the Administration chooses to entrust the security plan for an event in which the majority of attendees are minors and families.”
The unions consider that the security area has technicians “more than capable” to write the corresponding security plans, “without having to opt for external companies with particular interests and” that economize on technical resources, reducing the security of the events.
They declare that the Local Police Corps is in a situation of “orphanhood” and demand that the councilor responsible for the Security Area, Gladis de León, come to the defense of the Police she directs and put an end to this situation by discarding an external report of the company itself “that did not comply with what was expected of it, and that police reports should not be questioned again.”
In the statement, the organizations explain that “thanks to the rapid police response, said act ended without any minor being seriously injured, or major damage being caused to property or people, with the Local Police arriving at the scene from 7 p.m. :30 hours”.
