Hundreds of police officers from the Higher Headquarters of National Police from Valencia are they bite their nails and it they climb the walls. These officials have asked their commanders to allow them to help their colleagues from other municipalities affected by DANA. Colleagues who are doubling their work hours. The response from their bosses is constant refusal, which has generated widespread discontent. “We are desperate due to impotence”, according to sources from Jupol They got up.
The passage of the DANA through Valencia capital has left little damage while in the bordering areas the water has devastated everything in its path. UIP agents are collaborating in the work. In parallel, Citizen Security, Immigration or Information officials continue with their daily work.
Police without help from DANA
The members of these units have requested to participate and collaborate in the tasks but have received refusal from the commanders. Therefore, they are found “desperate” with “helplessness” since they consider that they are “doing nothing” while their fellow villagers are “doubling shifts”.
The National Police demarcation areas affected are points such as Torrent, Aldaia or Quart de Poblet. “They are overwhelmed,” Jupol sources point out to Vozpópuli. The agents who ask to help have offered their collaboration “during hours of service or outside.” A circumstance that doesn’t matter to them, they just want to collaborate with their colleagues.
Thus, the police have offered to carry out car raids, security in establishments that have been looted or care for elderly people who are isolated in their homes. Everything they can.
Bureaucracy and lack of leadership
On the other hand, the Police Union Alternative (ASP) has similarly denounced that volunteer national police officers are rejected in DANA rescue efforts. “Instead of allowing them to act to save lives and help citizens At this critical moment, it is remembered that on other occasions police officers are forced to attend formal events for the presentation of medals, events intended solely for the glory and glory of their superiors,” they add in a press release.
“This rejection not only offends the commitment of these police officers, but also reveals a worrying lack of respect towards those who wish to fulfill their duty.” work in full. While commanders prioritize their image, our communities suffer from a lack of personnel in essential rescue tasks. We demand that the disposition of these agents be valued and they be allowed to act where they are really necessary: on the ground, assisting citizens affected by DANA,” they emphasize.
Likewise, from ASP they point out that the UIP has come down to help Castellón “with vans and our commanders have told them to turn around because that is demarcation.” “The inaction and lack of coordination are so evident that it would seem that they completely do not know how to deal with the situation. They are not doing anything, they do not know what to do and, what is even more worrying, they do not let those who do know do what they do. It is intolerable that, in such a crisis magnitude, bureaucracy and lack of leadership block the efforts of agents willing to help,” they conclude.
They ask for a full deployment of the National Police
Along these lines, the CEP union has asked “what the Interior expects to deploy the National Police throughout that area.” “When there is an emergency of this type there can be no brakes cast out There cannot be resources available that are not mobilized in case this bothers other bodies or institutions. And if all the help is little, we cannot continue waiting for a decision for unknown reasons,” he lamented in a press release.
In line with this, they remember that on Tuesday a patrol from Alzira rescued nine people trapped in their vehicles and brought them to safety. “There are already colleagues from the Scientific Police and Judicial Police dedicated to identifying bodies and locating missing persons. But we can and must do more. We have sufficient resources and volunteers, both in the UIP and in the UPR throughout Spain,” they say.
“At CEP we are clear. There can be no demarcations when it comes to saving lives and protecting people and property. We must fully deploy and we must do it now. The opposite would be another Interior scandal and playing with something very serious when all help is vital,” concludes this union on the deployment prepared to combat the effects of DANA.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
