The Mossos d’Esquadra police station, Alícia Moriana, was summoned at eleven in the morning to the office of the general director of the police, Pere Ferrer. Before, she had time to go to court and file an appeal challenging the bases of the process, as Andrea Villoria has advanced in Cadèna Ser and sources familiar with the police movements have confirmed to La Vanguardia. The contentious appeal aims to assess “the convenience of stopping the process so that some doubts that the contest has generated both internally and publicly can be clarified,” the same sources have assured.
Moriana presented his candidacy for the second position of mayor of the Mossos to the general surprise of the current political and police leadership of the Mossos d’Esquadra. A vacant position that the current team of Joan Ignasi Elena wanted to occupy despite being on the verge of regional elections, without the guarantee of continuity at the head of the Ministry of the Interior. A position at the highest point of the Catalan police organization chart, designed for the current chief commissioner, Eduard Sallent, and who would accompany Major Josep Lluís Trapero in the use of those stripes.
That of major is a professional category and not a political position such as the election of a head of the Mossos. And as such, Morínaa and many of the consulted commanders understand, he has to be chosen in a contest whose bases the police station has now appealed, understanding that neither is it determined in the bases of that contest what training or attitudes will be assessed to be considered the optimal candidate for the position.
In her letter, the commissioner proposed stopping the process as precautionary measures, but the judge did not take them into account and Eduard Sallent was the first to hold the interview, at eleven in the morning. Then it was Moríana’s turn.
Now the director of the police has to prepare a report detailing why his chosen one is the optimal police officer to occupy the second senior position. And that report, which he must write in his own handwriting, will be public in the next few hours. Either this Friday, during the weekend, or on Monday, with the Government in office after Sunday’s elections.
Be that as it may, both Ferrer and the department have not hidden, neither publicly nor more discreetly, that Sallent is the commissioner they want to appoint as senior, shielding in some way his future in the face of the new stage that is predicted in the Ministry of the Interior and also in the Mossos d’Esquadra. And even more so now, after knowing the desire of the socialist candidate Salvador Illa to appoint Nuria Parlón as head of the Interior and Josep Lluís Trapero as general director of the police if he manages to govern and they rule in that department.
The competition to fill the second senior position has not been liked by the main police unions either. SAP-FEPOL and USPAC have appealed the bases, accusing the leaders of making an “opaque” and “Sallent-tailored” call.
With the three resources beginning their journey in court, in the next few hours Ferrer will announce his election, present his brief and the chosen one will be sent to the police school to take a course that will end with a trip. Sallent days ago he chose the destination, a city in northern Europe.
