The SIP-FEPOL union of the Badalona Urban Police (Barcelonès Nord) denounces the “worrying state” of the patrol vehicles. They assure that the police vehicle fleet presents an “obvious deterioration” so they demand that the government take “immediate” measures.
The government, for its part, has replied that for the moment seven vehicles have already been purchased, that they are about to arrive and that the dealership is adapting them for police work.
SIP-Fepol warns that the Guardia Urbana mobile park has obsolete vehicles, due to lack of renewal and insufficient maintenance that “puts the safety of our agents and the effectiveness of our work at risk.”
It is essential, they say, that an urgent renewal of the patrol vehicles be carried out, as well as an adequate maintenance plan to guarantee that they can effectively fulfill their function in serving citizens.
They consider that the lack of investment in this aspect not only affects the safety of the agents, but also the ability to respond to emergency situations and the quality of the service they can offer. Added to this fact is the lack of cleaning of the vehicles, “we have been months without hiring a company to manage the cleaning of the patrol vehicles.”
For all these reasons, they demand that the current government take immediate measures to solve this situation and guarantee decent and safe working conditions for the members of the Badalona Urban Guard. “Our commitment to the safety and well-being of citizens cannot be
Another union, the Unitary Trade Union Platform (PSU), has contributed to the controversy through social networks and has described that there are only five cars for the entire city, that some agents have to travel by bus, that phones and computers do not work, chicken rubber bands to hold the transmitter batteries, installations without security. “Better that the tree covers the forest” they ironically.
conditioned by the lack of resources and negligence in the maintenance” of the means necessary to carry out the work.
In relation to the criticism regarding the Urban Guard vehicles, the municipal government reiterates that it is fully committed to improving the human and material resources for the work of this police force. For this reason, there are already seven new police vehicles purchased, which are being adapted to police work by the dealership and which will be delivered to the Urban Police at the beginning of next month, in a matter of two weeks.
On the other hand, regarding cleaning, the government reports that a tender for the service is currently being prepared, which will take about two months to be completed and that, in the meantime, they are working on a solution to carry out the cleaning of the vehicles.