Police denounce that 30% of the workforce specializing in gender violence has been deserted
The resources to fight against sexist violence have been the focus of controversy in recent weeks. The lack of material and human resources jumped to the public showcase at the beginning of the year with the cascade of cases registered in just one month. It is now the police union Jupol and also the representative of the Popular Party, Ana Vzquezwho insist that the gear is still not working.
Jupol assures that in the last specific contest of merits of the Family and Women Care Units (UFAM) of the National Police -specialized in the fight against gender violence- a total of 143 officer positions were offered, leaving 44 deserted, that is, more than 30%.
For this reason, it calls on the Ministry of the Interior to reform the catalog of jobs for these specific units so as not to leave vacancies empty, as happened in the last merit contest, since it understands that vacancies can be a “ballast” in the fight against gender violence.
This situation, in the opinion of the union, can mean “a new burden” in these units: “They already suffer from a significant lack of personnel, which forces each agent in this unit on average to have to care for more than 60 victims of violence of gender”.
JUPOL asks to cover the empty squares after the last contest of UFAM, the unit in charge of gender violence
Sources from the Ministry of the Interior, as collected by Europa Press, offer data from the last UFAM contest but adding both the Executive Scale and that of Sub-inspectors and Basic. The vacant positions are 11% of the 543 offered: 43 were published in the Executive Scale and nine positions were left empty; and another 500 between Sub-inspectors and Basic Scale, of which 55 were not awarded.
For her part, Ana Vázquez presented this afternoon at the Interior Commission an audit of Viogen whose conclusions they leave the system that protects women at risk in a bad light.
According to evidence, in 2022 only one in seven women who denounced received protection and only 3% of women victims of sexist violence received a medium or higher risk score.
The ‘popular’ deputy, likewise, insisted on the atavistic elements of which Viogen is made up and accompanied it with data. A survey of 4,000 women who make up the protection system reveals that 80% acknowledged having problems with the form -the document by which the level of risk is decided- and that 48% evaluated it negatively.
In addition, he denounced that the mobile phone available to the agents specializing in sexist violence cannot receive WhatsApp.
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