most sick leave Submitted by the local police of Seville in the Human Resources of the City Council and signed by the same doctor. This is what this newspaper was able to find out, after learning that among the 605 parts justified this … Of the absences from work that have been formalized throughout this year, 290 of them come from the same doctor.
This weekend, at the movie premiere A special device for the holidays and with Derby testing security in the citythere was a boycott by the majority of local police personnel who had been activated to work the shift. This has been evident since Friday, in the inauguration of the lighting last Saturday, both at the beginning of traffic restrictions in commercial areas, and in the match between Sevilla and Betis itself.
The doctor mentioned above is a doctor who has just been fired by the company Asisaa company hired by the city council to provide supplementary health care to its employees, after checking for possible anomalies due to the huge volume of sick leave granted, at a time when a serious labor conflict is breaking out between the police unions and the municipal government over the overtime for the Christmas plan.
To give an idea of what they constitute The 290 parts signed by the aforementioned doctor, that is, 47 percent of the total between 2025 and November 15.the next Asisa professional signed the number of sickness reports from local police officers on 13 during the year, the third on 9, while in fourth place are three doctors jointly signing 7 parts, and below, another group of professionals jointly responsible for 5 of these documents.
This doctor would have sent sick reports to several agents from different sections of the local police corps Geographically distant from your workplace And with addresses in locations outside the mentioned consultation area.
Thus, the company has discovered A Anomalous concentration of temporary disability reports signed by a single specialistSuspecting that she had collected numerous requests for assistance, even from clients outside her geographic area, Because of its alleged ease when giving medical justifications.
The situation thus aroused interest within Asisa, to the point that it actually happened Ultimately removing this professional from services related to city council staff. The company, which this newspaper consulted, declined to comment on the matter. The doctor himself has previously transferred the procedure for removing him from this service to the insured in his practice who are affected by the aforementioned decision, which is being applied. “Until further orders,” he said. Literally speaking, the letter reads: “Exclusively for policyholders of the Seville City Council: I have received notice from Asisa and the City Council not to carry out my medical duties until, as I hope, a new order is issued to all policyholders. What I am communicating with you is for your information and if you see this then do what you see fit to restore the service as it was before, and I continue to be your primary doctor as you chose me to be.
Seville City Council, whatever it is, it is Analyze each case individually to verify the circumstances For each of these absences, that is, if agents who did not attend the special shifts in which they were included have duly approved the status justifying their absence.
In the context of the aforementioned lack of agreement between the unions and the local government on additional work for the Christmas plan devices, LThe lack of consensus led the very popular mayor, José Luis Sanz, to issue a decree on the first level of the municipal emergency plan.. The entry into force of this regulatory instrument therefore made it necessary for agents to attend to new shifts in the plan.
Justifying absence
Precisely for this reason, the city council warned that agents who do not stick to their assigned shifts will be subject to penalty Commitment to officially approve the medical reportOtherwise, they will face the opening of a disciplinary file.
In this last aspect the above-mentioned doctor, now removed, could have played a major role The Christmas plan conceived by the force’s leadership is interrupted, with a whole series of special shifts marked by the absence of the majority of agents They were called to them.
The large absences of agents from the aforementioned shifts, as their absence reached about 190 on Saturday, and about 225 on Sunday; They left behind situations such as the decision of the National Police to use their trucks to block damaged roads to escort groups of Betis fans to the Seville Football Club stadium on the occasion of Derbydue to the expected inadequacy of local agents to regulate traffic.
On Sunday afternoon, criticism erupted of the derby between Sevilla and Real Betis Balompie at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, coinciding with the second day of the Christmas lighting operation and what that meant in terms of the audience in the historic center; A total of 94 of the 135 agents assigned to the corresponding shift would not have attended this special service, which would have included only 41 employees.
That is, almost 70% of the customers included in this exceptional service did not come for the serviceOf course, the insufficiency of factors has a corresponding effect on the organization of the device.
Union CSIF For his part, he defends that “headquarters did not do it well” in this whole matter. According to the union organization, although the headquarters published last Friday a list of the names of agents compulsorily assigned to special shifts, the procedure was not “personally issued” to each of the agents concerned.
The order issued by the local police corps where the list of said forces was published, according to CSIF, It can only be accessed through computers The City Council, therefore according to this union force, was not provided with “no mechanism” for effective communication with these officials, in the case of those who were not in their jobs when the said order was published. Those who were outside the service, according to the authority, were not able to access the document.
To this end, the union says the first level of the municipal emergency plan will be activated by the city council Does not respond to “real” urgency, In defense that clients mobilized on their own initiative, they came to provide exceptional services even without being called upon, on occasions such as Storm Bernard of October 2023, Major power outage on April 28 of this year Or the last days of heavy rain.
The latest proposal from local government to the unions representing the police workforce for a Christmas plan Thinking of additional work in the amount of approximately 5.6 million euros; “Even the mayor is not above the law,” Sanz warned, referring to the obstacles to municipal intervention to allocate more money to this concept, after the item in the city council’s budget for agent productivity, which was set at more than 17 million euros, was exhausted last May.
For their part, the unions warned that the proposal would mean dispersing the reinforcements, given that every Christmas Day is marked by events and large public attendance. It also adds problems of success due to thoughtful planning and betting on repeating last year’s planWhich included the disbursement of approximately ten million euros.
For the Professional Confederation of Municipal Police in Spain (Sppme), the municipal plan will be designed solely for «Preserving the needs imposed by municipal interventionon specific days such as the weekend when the Christmas lights are turned on, the December long weekend and the central days from December 22 to January 7.
However, municipal intervention has already warned of The “exponential” growth of funds allocated for overtime The local police have increased in recent years, in the context of a boom in public events hosted by the city while the shortage of active elements in the police force continues.