The Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, appeared yesterday at the end of the Government meeting to detail what in his opinion are the most important aspects of the new decree for the restructuring of the Mossos d’Esquadra. An organization chart that contemplates the creation of new police stations, divisions and units, and for which 109 commanders will be needed, as La Vanguardia advanced. For this reason, the person in charge of the Interior warned that the norm is photography, which is intended to be achieved over time, and that the implementation of the new structure will be carried out in line with the growth of the workforce, until reaching 22,000 police officers. agreed with the central government.
Some of the changes that will be immediate, he said, will be the creation of the new information and communication technology (ICT) general police station, which will not carry out any investigation and will be in charge of providing technological support to the rest of the police stations. The creation of the tenth Mossos region, the virtual one, will also be imminent. which will be inside the general police station for criminal investigation. The new citizen security police station will also start working immediately.
The minister assured that the new structuring decree has aroused “enthusiasm” among the Mossos d’Esquadra. “I know this because there are many people who have been working on a project that defines a horizon for more than a year.” And he picked up the gauntlet of six of the eight unions that planted him on Tuesday in the extraordinary council of the Police and that accused him of lack of dialogue. “If it’s to talk more, we will.” He also relativized the “coldness” with which the Catalan police commanders welcomed the presentation of the decree on Tuesday afternoon. “We are a police organization that does not applaud at the end of the workday or shout cheers to the mossos. We are more serious than all that.”
And he denied that the transfer of the wiretapping system from the general police station for criminal investigation to the new information and communication technology reduces the protection of judicial investigations. “Only a bad faith interpretation can reach that conclusion,” he said. The minister justified the transfer by technical criteria, noting that the National Police has the same model. A fact that in his opinion “will surely reassure those who showed concern.”
Along with the new central area for cybercrime and corruption, one for sexual violence will be created that will house the UCAS, the central unit against sexual assaults, which for the moment will continue to be located in the offices that the Mossos have in Les Corts.
