The turbulent waters are calming in Utrera regarding the situation of the local police and its relations with the town hall. A few weeks ago, the union section of the CSIF of Utrera made public a complaint for alleged harassment at work against the chief inspector of the … Utrera Local Police. A complaint which, due to the refusal of the Town Hall to file the corresponding internal protocol, was taken to court by the union. Since then, events have followed one another, transforming into a clash of declarations between the union and the Town Hall, resulting in a situation which clearly affects the security of the city.
The problem has reached a point where, as confirmed by the union’s own sources, last Friday, December 5, the day chosen for the inauguration of Christmas lightsno local police officers were on duty on the streets. Apparently there was only one of them on duty at headquarters, because due to the unrest and the rarefied climate in which they have to work, there are currently around twenty police officers on leave. In fact, the Utrera Town Hall had to resort to the help of the Civil Guard to be able to guarantee security during the many events that take place in the streets of the city.
It all started with the aforementioned complaint published by the CSIF, which demanded “the immediate activation of the Consistory Prevention and Action Protocol against Harassment at Work and the adoption of urgent precautionary measures, including the immediate separation of command from the Chief Inspector, to ensure the psychosocial health of personnel.
According to the document presented, “the harassment actions began after the command was reinstated in its functions, more precisely since November 11, 2025, and after learning that it was the subject of an investigation by the Andalusia Anti-Fraud Office (OAAF) for alleged irregularities in the collection of overtime. The CSIF emphasizes that these control measures were not applied before this date.
They added that since then the Chief Inspector “undertook a clear objective of retaliation and harassment against agents who exercise their union representation rights and defend working conditions.”
Local police officers carry out a check on the streets of Utrera in an archive image
A problem that continued with the request made by the union to the Utrera Town Hall to request the investigation “on the documentary justification of the Productivity paid to the Chief Inspector of the Local Police”. The union questioned the fact that the command “with a gross salary greater than €75,900 and a Specific Supplement of €42,847.98, devoted 500 hours of extraordinary service between January 2024 and August 2025 to meet the minimum staffing requirements.
Support from Utrera City Hall
Faced with this situation, the Utrera City Hall, through its Citizen Security delegation, led by Juan Antonio Plata, did not carry out the required investigation into allegations of harassment at work, and valued the work of the head of the Local Police, highlighting his “professionalism, commitment and full disposition to promote this new stage. Likewise, he highlighted the effort and dedication of all the agents who make up the staff of the Local Police, “without whose work and interest it is possible to improve the service, it would not be possible to achieve this change, since each police officer is a fundamental element and it is appropriate to emphasize their total involvement”, in relation to a supposed new reorganization of the work of the Local Police.
After the City Council refused to examine the complaint internally, the CSIF announced that it was going to court and in parallel there was what the local government described as a “local police strike with an economic motive and these demands will be considered as part of the job evaluation for all municipal staff, not just police officers.” “And on the other hand the demand for a new work system which spend 6 days on and 6 days offsomething that cannot be implemented until more officer positions are filled, to ensure all services are provided with the number of police officers the city would need in each shift.
For its part, according to the CSIF, the reason why there are no police on the streets in these sensitive days “is none other than the psychosocial health crisis generated by harassment, aggravated by the imposition of compulsory extraordinary service decrees. Currently, more than 20 agents have recorded situations of deterioration in their health, with symptoms such as stress, anxiety, increases in tension and, fundamentally, fear of going to work.
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