Coalición Canaria (CC) San Bartolomé urges the municipal socialist government, led by Mayor Isidro Pérez, to finally comply with the firm court ruling that obliges the City Council to pay the productivity corresponding to the six new Local Police officers, who were incorporated more than a year ago, first as trainees and currently as permanent civil servants.
The local secretary of CC San Bartolomé, Corín Machín, considers it "inadmissible that the mayor and his governing group continue to violate the labor rights of these officers, refusing to pay a supplement that is not a privilege, but a judicially recognized right," and adds that "this non-compliance not only violates legality but also creates clear discrimination within the Corps itself."
Machín laments that "this new conflict adds to the open confrontation the mayor maintains with the Local Police, refusing to renew a collective agreement from 2006 and therefore obsolete"; and denounces that "San Bartolomé today has fewer officers than in 2002, despite the significant population growth experienced since then." This lack of personnel "and adequate ratios has caused shifts to be covered by overtime for years," he adds
"Coercion" by the mayor
In this regard, the municipal spokesperson for CC San Bartolomé, David Rocío, denounces that "the mayor's absolute inability to negotiate, combined with his lies, threats, and coercion, as the Local Police union itself has reported, has led the officers to stop working overtime, which is causing insecurity in the streets.""This situation is leading to an increase in thefts, brawls, neighborhood disturbances, and home occupations, without sufficient police presence to guarantee public safety; and now we must add the lack of political will to pay the productivity corresponding to their internship period to these six officers who have been providing their service for over a year, as is done in other municipalities," he adds
Favorable ruling
Faced with this injustice, the new agents have been forced to defend their rights through the courts, obtaining a favorable ruling that, however, the City Council has not published. "It is striking, to say the least, that a governing group that publicly announces all its legal disputes has forgotten about this procedure. Could it be because they lost it?" points out David RocíoCC San Bartolomé also denounces the paradox that the mayor and the other socialist councilors did want to have their picture taken and announce the incorporation of these officers on two occasions – when they started their internships and when they became permanent civil servants – but then they do not respect the law by turning their backs on these officers and the entire Local Police Force, thus failing to comply with a final court ruling.