The vice mayor of Madrid, Inma Sanz, stated this Monday that the municipal government will respect the judicial process opened on alleged irregularities in two oppositions of the Municipal Police, which is why the Executive of José Luis Martínez-Almeida has no intention of opening a commission investigation into this matter, as requested by the opposition.
The matter, which the PSOE has asked about in the January plenary session – Más Madrid will also request in the plenary session that an investigation commission be opened – refers to the order of the Provincial Court, last December, to reopen the case – previously filed by the Court of Instruction number 31 of Madrid – for alleged irregularities in two examinations of the Municipal Police of the capital, denounced by an association, understanding that only a report made by the Corps itself was taken into account, without take testimony from those investigated.
The Court ordered the case to be returned to Court number 31 “in order for the investigation to continue for greater clarification of the facts and circumstances that may affect its correct classification.”
This process began with a complaint from APMU, in 2022, against five senior officials of the Madrid Municipal Police and a dozen friends and family members implicated in possible crimes of criminal organization, bribery and influence peddling in two oppositions: one for access to the category of inspector for the free shift and another to be quartermaster of the Corps, also for the free shift.
In the plenary session, the socialist councilor Enrique Rico has demanded from Sanz that the City Council open a commission of investigation into a “possible very serious case of corruption” that affects the leadership of the local Police force.
“Your leadership, Mrs. Sanz, the one you have named, for which you are responsible,” Rico emphasized before reviewing the matter in question.
After Rico, Sanz took the floor, stating that the City Council will not open a commission of investigation: “What we are going to do, although it seems like a very exotic thing to you, is to respect the judicial process and the judges. That is what we are going to do,” Sanz clarified before reproaching Teresa Ribera’s words about Judge García-Castellón, or criticizing the amnesty law.
The vice mayor, spokesperson for the municipal government and delegate for Security and Emergencies, has pointed out that in Madrid “judges are respected” and that “the principles of democracy are sacred, also including, of course, the presumption of innocence.”
“And when there is a judicial investigation underway, we collaborate with the judge, with the Court and the ground is not muddied,” added Sanz, for whom the PSOE has to “stop making accusations that may be insulting” and “respect the work of the judges.
Sanz has also recapitulated that the matter began after a “series of complaints” that led Internal Affairs to carry out a “serious, rigorous, important investigation, which concludes that there has been no situation that could give rise to these criminal acts.” .
“That same report is of course transferred at the request of the Court, and the National Police also investigates throughout the process. As a result of these reports, the Prosecutor’s Office requests the file, and the judge files it, and, now, the Provincial Court says that it understands that some more procedures must be carried out and that this provisional dismissal should not be based only on what it has to do with with that report,” emphasized the popular vice mayor.
