he District of local police personnel in Seville For the security plan for the Corps headquarters for Christmas, with a commitment to completing the shifts, despite not being agreed upon at the first level referee … The local emergency plan, activated by the mayor himself, José Luis Sanz, had a particular impact on Sunday afternoon, which was marked by the derby between FC Sevilla and Real Betis Balompie at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium.
In detail, as sources from the Seville City Council informed this newspaper, this Sunday afternoon 94 of the 135 agents assigned to the shift corresponding to the Derby did not attend this special serviceWhich could have included only 41 soldiers.
As a result, of course, The National Police chose to use their trucks Closure of street intersections included in the route of escorting Betis fan groups to Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium, due to the expected shortage of local police officers to regulate traffic at such intersections and allow the procession to cross.
Thus, 70 percent of the agents included in this transformation who have a special influence on this essential party in the city’s movement and security will be absent from it, after e.On the morning shift, 93 of 139 agents assigned to exceptional services did not show up, and on the previous night shift, 38 of 72 agents assigned to the service were absent.
The National Police used their own vehicles to close intersections that were affected by the Betis fans’ escort route due to the lack of local police to regulate traffic.
That means An additional 225 absences were added to the nearly 190 absences accumulated through the day on SaturdayA day marked by the official work of Turn on the Christmas lights In the area around Constitution Avenue and City Hall, which was crowded with people and where there was a shortage of uniformed officers, as well as traditional traffic control points, among other aspects.
This was for the Seville City Council, governed by the popular José Luis Sanz Activate the first level of your emergency planwith the obligation of local police officers to take up special shifts and be available at any time to cover extraordinary Christmas operations, compared to the voluntary nature of committing to these shifts before the aforementioned exceptional tool came into force.
In light of these significant absences from the special changes to the municipal security plan for Christmas, based on the implicit obligations of the agents as a result of activating the first level of the emergency plan, as is known, Lack of long-term agreement between local government and union representatives for the police workforceto charge productivity for cash for their additional services specifically for these Christmas devices.
Victim adoption
According to Seville City Council, agents who did not complete their allotted shift did so Obligation to officially prove medical leave, otherwise they will face opening a file Disciplinary, as let us remember that the activation of the first level of the municipal emergency plan forced them to participate in the exceptional services established by the headquarters.
he CSIF Federation For its part, it defended that although the headquarters published last Friday a list of agents compulsorily assigned to the special shift, this measure did not “personally decree” each of the agents concerned, warning that the order of the local police corps where the list of said forces was published could only be accessed through the computers of the city hall, which according to this union force “did not provide an effective mechanism” for communicating with these officials, in the case of those who had not been active the day before.
For its part, the Seville Local Police Union (SPLS) called for an administrative disputeOr the emergency plan on “the possible violation of fundamental rights in the unilateral imposition of working conditions through the use of the municipal emergency plan,” by deliberately evading the legal channels of collective bargaining.
A recent proposal from local government to the unions representing the police workforce has been considered for a Christmas plan Overtime in the amount of approximately €5.6 million; The mayor warned that “even the mayor is not above the law,” referring to the obstacles to the municipality’s intervention in allocating more funds to this concept, after the portion allocated to agent productivity from the city council’s budget was exhausted last May.
For its part, the unions warned that this proposal would mean… Retail reinforcements when all days of the Christmas calendar feature events and large crowdsIt also adds problems of success due to thoughtful planning and betting on repeating last year’s plan, which included spending about ten million euros. Thus conflict is presented when the Christmas period is just beginning.