SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The JUPOL union has denounced the order issued by the Provincial Headquarters of the National Police of Tenerife, which establishes the service orders that will be implemented on these dates to cover care services for irregular migrants who arrive in El Hierro, in which “without prior notice” ten agents from the radio patrol service from the Tenerife police stations will be assigned to the island of El Hierro to provide custody services at the CATE in El Hierro.
Through a statement, the police union maintains that this is a situation that represents “a major grievance for the officers who have to leave their homes and their families at Christmas time,” as well as service orders “that once again highlight the lack of foresight and coordination in relation to a perfectly foreseeable event such as the arrival of irregular immigration to the Canary Islands and which will mean leaving the island of Tenerife with a shortage of radio patrols on the streets to cover the services of custody in the CATE of El Hierro, since the radio patrol services of Tenerife are the only ones that have received these service orders”.
Likewise, the JUPOL union considers that this situation “does nothing more than demonstrate the need to update and expand the Catalog of Jobs of the National Police in the Canary Islands and adapt it to the continued flows of immigration that these islands receive and avoid this way the lack of police officers in them”.
The spokesperson for JUPOL, Ibón Domínguez, has highlighted that the situation of immigration arrivals in the Canary Islands “is unsustainable, already exceeding the immigration arrival figures of the cayucos crisis of 2006”; a situation that “reveals the urgent need to increase the number of National Police officers in the Canary Islands, updating the catalog of jobs of the General Directorate of the Police to adapt it to current police needs and not to those existing in 2008, the date of the last update.”
JUPOL requests the DGP to urgently update the staff of the Canary Islands and thus guarantee the safety of all National Police agents in the face of the massive arrival of immigration and consequently the safety of immigrants and citizens in general.
PRECARIOUS SITUATION
JUPOL, on the other hand, wants to denounce the precarious situation in which the police officers who attend to these immigrants upon their arrival work, “without a specific action protocol for these cases and in a situation of obvious numerical inferiority, something that puts at risk to the agents given the lack of security that exists in the facilities where they carry out custody”.
For this reason, the JUPOL spokesperson has reiterated “the urgent need to take measures in the face of a perfectly foreseeable situation that is repeated year after year on our coasts and in which neither the Ministry of the Interior, nor the General Directorate of the Police, nor “the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration has just determinedly faced the search for a solution that guarantees the safety and health of both the National Police agents and the immigrants.”
JUPOL has requested on repeated occasions and at all levels (local, regional and national) the publication of an action protocol in the event of the arrival of boats, which resolves the very important operational gap in areas such as the Canary Islands. A protocol, adds Domínguez, “that puts an end to the improvisation that occurs in the arrival areas of irregular immigration every time there is an arrival of cayucos.”
DEBUG RESPONSIBILITIES
The citizens of the Canary Islands, JUPOL assures, “have the collaboration of all the agents of the National Police, agents who do nothing other than give their all in each service, putting their health, safety and integrity at risk. on numerous occasions with the improvisation they suffer in the devices caused by the arrival of boats, something that this union organization will not allow.
The majority union has been repeatedly requesting that all responsibilities of any kind be cleared, denouncing if necessary any infraction of the occupational risk prevention rules of those who, being legally obliged, do not provide the necessary means for the police to carry out their activity with appropriate safety and hygiene measures.