The Independent Trade Union and Officials Center (CSIF) denounces “malpractice” by the mayor of La Matanza de Acentejo, Ignacio Rodríguez Jorge, and the Police councilor, Manuel Lorenzo Chaves Sálamo, which has caused “alleged irregularities” in the management of the security in the municipality.
“Rodríguez Jorge does not cease in his efforts to breach the regional regulations regarding the Law for the Coordination of Local Police in the Canary Islands, with the approval of the regional government,” criticizes the union in a statement.
Specifically, CSIF accuses the public officials of the PSOE in the municipality of Tenerife of hiring personnel in breach of the regulations and assigning functions to Civil Protection and private security guards that correspond to the Local Police and the Civil Guard.
In the note, the union specifies that on March 23 of this year, the City Council published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife the bases of a call for three positions for the Local Police. In his opinion, the procedure violated the regulations because it involved “the creation of a list with the applicants who have passed the selection process and who have not obtained the status of career civil servants, in order to cover possible vacancies that may subsequently arise” .
CSIF assures that it is not the first time that the mayor commits “alleged irregularities” in this area. Thus, remember that on June 17, 2020, it published some bases for the selection of municipal guards and the constitution of reserve lists. However, the union defends that the regulations prohibit this figure since 1997 in those municipalities that have Local Police officers.
“This way of acting by the mayor, acting outside the law, without respecting the established legal framework, seems to have no end, and since there is no legal limit to it or have legal consequences, this way of acting is being copied and followed by the Police councilor”, the note maintains.
The union has also exposed “the malpractice and alleged irregularities committed by the Police councilor in the days of last Easter.” On March 28, CSIF assures that Chaves Sálamo approved a decree to authorize and empower Civil Protection and security guards to “carry out traffic stop functions at all sporting or other events.”
CSIF considers that with the decree “an attempt was made to give a legal appearance to the premeditated and manifestly illegal actions that were subsequently carried out.” In this sense, he says that Civil Protection and the vigilantes contracted towing services and performed traffic blocking functions on urban and interurban roads.
“The residents of the municipality found that their parked vehicles were removed from the public highway without any legal protection and without the authorization of the competent authority, since on urban public highways that function corresponds to the local police of that municipality and in the interurban roads, to the civil traffic guard ”, the statement abounds.
“In addition, the municipal guards and civil protection volunteers were in charge of carrying out the traffic cuts, both on urban and interurban roads, without being under the command or instructions of the security forces and bodies,” adds the union.
For all these reasons, CSIF accuses both the mayor and the Police councilor of “the usurpation of functions proper to the Local Police and Civil Guard of traffic by municipal security guards and civil protection volunteers, by order of the aforementioned charges. public”.
The union details that this way of proceeding threatens the development of police work, undermines and discredits their work, as well as affects their image and professional dignity.
“From CSIF we cannot remain silent when these public workers are unfairly treated and separated for faithfully fulfilling their work in the service of the law.”
The union concludes the statement expressing its concern about the modification promoted by the mayor of La Matanza de Acentejo, who supports the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (Fecam) and the Government of the Canary Islands of the law “to cover actions that as of the day of the date they do not have any legal protection”.
