The ertzainas of the basic scale They are forced to go more and more frequently, they themselves to the courts to investigate crimes that from their police stations “refuse to investigate”. And it is that, some consider that acting in an “arbitrary” way especially if in the equation, in the day-to-day work, the agents do not follow the Basque postulates, they feel as Basque as Spanish and seek to do their job, as required by law.
It happened a few months ago when ertzaina agents had to go to an accident in which the man, who was driving the truck involved in what happened, gave a positive breathalyzer test and was being investigated for a crime against road safety. After the removal of the truck the ertzainas went, together with the driver, to the towing company to analyze a series of investigations with respect to the tachograph at which time the injured person began to feel pain reason why They requested the presence of an ambulance. However, after some time they were told that “if they had been able to move from the scene of the accident, they could go to the health center by their own means.”
The agents, guarantors at that time of the physical integrity of the injured person, again requested the ambulance receiving a response similar to the above: “We sincerely believe that this person can go by their own means by taxi,” they valued on the other end of the phone.. The truck driver, who I had three broken ribs He ended up calling the emergency service himself for an ambulance to pick him up, but, according to the complaint to which this newspaper has had access, and after acknowledging that he was the victim of the accident for which the ertzainas had already claimed previously, the ambulance officers told him that “they could only attend to him at the scene of the accident” reiterating that for this reason he would have to travel by his own means to a center sanitary.
It was the ertzainas who informed, making a written statement first to their Headquarters of the Guipúzcoa Traffic Unit of what happened, whose facts were referred to the Territorial Headquarters of Guipúzcoa ordering the latter to include the statement in the certificate which had been opened. However, the result was that thirty days later no report on what had happened had been opened.. For this reason, and given the obligation derived from their position as Agents of the Authority, the ertzainas the police themselves went to the court to present the complaint correspondent To avoid similar and habitual cases are repeated, since they can occur again and so that their presumed perpetratorsis not to go unpunished as well as denounce the instructor for a “possible omission of the duty to prosecute crimes”. And it is that, the ertzainas who provide service on the street every day do not understand why these complaints are paralyzed and they do not act more diligently to avoid similar cases and remember that there are already precedents in other communities.
As this newspaper has learned, the operator who refused to take the ambulance thanks to the work of the Donostia-San Sebastián Court is being investigated for two crimes: omission of the duty to help and refusal of assistance.