Leaving the head of the force aside, few positions in the Mossos d’Esquadra have greater projection and pressure than that of being the head of the Barcelona police region. Capital of Catalonia, events in the city have a political, social and media impact that is incomparable with those of the rest of the territory. Hence, this position is the one that monopolizes the main holder of the name changes in various police positions that the Department of the Interior and the Mossos headquarters will announce on Friday. The chief commissioner of Barcelona, ​​Marta Fernández, will be relieved by the also commissioner and current number two of the northern metropolitan police region, Montserrat Estruch.
The headquarters and the political leadership of the police keep silence about the relays. In fact, some and some of those affected did not know the coordinates of their new destination last night. Nobody dares to ask and all are conjectures and rumors in the corridors of the Mossos headquarters in Egara, Sabadell.
In April 2021, Major Josep LluÃs Trapero, then in charge of the Mossos, placed Commissioner Fernández leading Barcelona and replacing Carles Anfruns. She thus became the first woman in charge of the main police region in Catalonia, but she also assumed, with the trust placed in her by Major Trapero, a label that she has not shed. Marta Fernández was and is still part of the core of trust of the mayor Toni RodrÃguez, relegated in RubÃ, and of the commissioner Rafel Comes, in the process of recovering from an illness. With both she worked in criminal investigation.
When Minister Joan Ignasi Elena convinced Commissioner Josep MarÃa Estela to lead the Mossos in December 2021, Marta Fernández appeared in all the pools to be dismissed. But the controversy generated at that time by the substitution of RodrÃguez forced her substitution to be postponed.
Over the months, Estela ended up becoming a staunch defender of Marta Fernández, to the point of publishing a letter in which she defended the Barcelona commissioner and her results, given rumors that she would be dismissed and replaced by her second, the curator SÃlvia Catà .
Upon arrival at the Mossos headquarters, Eduard Sallent evaluated all the possibilities of replacing Fernández, but he needed the new batch of police stations to change her for another woman, following the feminization guidelines of the department. Fernández will leave the region with excellent police results, except in everything that has to do with sexual violence.
The future of Commissioner Fernández is uncertain. She discreetly, she has told her closest circle that she would like to be in charge of the new citizen security police station. But the plans of Sallent and the director Pere Ferrer for her include placing her as number two in the communication and information technology police station that will direct one of the rising values ​​in the Mossos, the commissioner Miguel Ãngel Garcia Alvira.
Two other women will go on to lead regions. SÃlvia Catà , second in Barcelona, ​​will replace Josep Milán in Girona, who is retiring; and Alicia Moriana will be transferred to the Central region to fill the vacancy of the Cristina Manresa police station, which will take over the Institute of Public Security, the school. Although Moriana has formally communicated in recent days her desire to go to Girona and not to the Central region.
In any case, the organization chart designed by Sallent is paralyzed after the Parliament of Catalonia asked the Interior to agree on the new decree on the structure of the Catalan police. Hence some larger changes will have to wait. In principle, the current managers in charge of such fundamental police stations as criminal investigation, information or operational resources will maintain their position. As well as the rest of the territorial managers, who will not move either, for the moment. Although between now and Friday, Sallent, Ferrer and Elena have room to move the occasional chip.
