The Arrecife City Council will once again have the Local Police officer Jonathan Rodríguez Llorca. The new Government group, led by the popular mayor Astrid Pérez, agreed in the plenary session held this Tuesday to transfer this local police officer to the second activity situation, who had suffered a disability due to an injury in an act of service.
The agent, present in the plenary hall when his matter was addressed, expressed his satisfaction at seeing that his rights had been restored, with the endorsement of a judicial sentence that 'condemned the arbitrary action of the previous Government group'.
With the plenary agreement, approved by the unanimity of all the political forces present in the Municipal Corporation of Arrecife, this agent will once again be an employee of the Institution with his transfer to the second activity. In May 2017, he had been notified, by the previous Government group, of his dismissal as an official belonging to the Local Police of Arrecife.
The agent, against that decree, filed an Administrative Litigation. Justice ruled in his favor and on April 22, 2019, where the Administrative Litigation Court of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria issued a sentence where it urged the Arrecife City Council to comply with the ruling and proceed to the transfer to the second activity situation of agent Rodríguez Llorca.
Background
Jonathan was on duty one weekend night in November 2015. He was assigned to the Citizen Security Unit (USCI) of the Local Police of Arrecife and they were notified of a fight on Manolo Millares street. In the middle of that fight, a man went to pull out a knife and Jonathan tried to subdue him. While trying to subdue him, he injured his shoulder and had to go to the Island's General Hospital. That was his last service. Since then he has reduced mobility in that arm despite the three operations that have been performed on him, and a disability has been recognized.
Social Security recognized him as disabled and he became a pensioner, still young. He cannot do the work he used to do but he can, and wants to, do other jobs. That is why he took action against the Arrecife City Council to achieve the transfer to the second activity. It has been his second fight in the last four years. The first was to overcome the injury and the second, the administrative battle to try to return to work in the Arrecife City Council, which in May 2017 decided to notify him of his dismissal as a municipal worker.
This Tuesday, July 23, 2019, Jonathan Rodríguez Llorca returned to the plenary hall of the Arrecife City Council. He carried a judicial sentence that accredited 'the arbitrary action of the previous group in 2017'. He has achieved his objective, to continue working in the capital's Municipal Institution.
The issue, among the issues addressed in the first plenary sessions of management by the new Government Group, was raised by the Councilor for Human Resources and Internal Regime, Eduardo Placeres Reyes.
This Tuesday the mayor, Astrid Pérez, - "who stressed that while in the opposition she helped him and never understood the actions of the previous municipal rulers" - was grateful that justice could be done with a municipal worker who wishes to continue serving the community, despite his disability". The deputy mayor and councilor of the Local Police, Alfredo Mendoza, moved, "was pleased that from now on he will be working again in the Arrecife City Council, an institution from which Yonathan should never have been separated in recent years due to his disability caused in the line of duty." Rodríguez Llorca wishes to continue being useful to the society of Arrecife. This Tuesday the plenary hall, the Government Group has welcomed him.
