The Unified Police Union (SUP) has called on police officers throughout Spain to mobilize to achieve a "safer" country. In a press release, it stated that the State has "almost 10,000 detainees for attacking an agent of authority, which represents one of the highest figures in the history of Democracy," while also requesting that "this problem be addressed immediately":
The Unified Police Union has stated that it has tried "actively and passively to curb this excessive escalation of aggression and disobedience never before seen." Therefore, it has requested "to toughen the penalties for this crime and recover the principle of authority."
"A crime that until 1995 was punishable by up to six years in prison and that can currently be committed without suffering any kind of consequence, not even the slightest precautionary measures, cannot be free of charge," he added in the aforementioned press release.
In this line, he has described as "shameful that the group of public officials most exposed to this type of crime is the most unprotected, while judges and politicians are more protected, with the number of attacks being residual compared to the overwhelming figures of the State Security Forces and Corps."
Likewise, they have added that "the repeated requests to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, have been of little use to us, and for this reason, last July we urgently appealed to the Minister of Justice, María Pilar Llop, who responded to us a few days ago by returning us to square one and referring us to Marlaska again."
It is for these reasons that the Unified Police Union believes that "the time has come to mobilize all the police forces of the State against this scourge of disobedience and aggression that is spreading like wildfire throughout our territory and that will end up causing some misfortune.
"We are subjected to a magnifying glass that accuses us of being pusillanimous or murderers, depending on our interventions in public, under the lens of the mobiles that record and disseminate us. A breeding ground also for some to turn it into their new extreme sport," added the spokesman for the SUP, Jacobo Rodríguez.
"We believe that the day has come to put an end to these abuses by hook or by crook. That is why we insist that all security operators in our country must unite and take to the streets all together, in the face of the passivity of a Government that has turned its back on us all these years while the problem does not stop growing," this union has denounced.
That's it! For a safer Spain, we have to take to the streets together with "the thousands of good citizens" who "support us and want their police to be protected to protect them. Enough of giving shelter to radicals and criminals of all kinds and let's put a solution," added the union.
The mobilizations have been planned for next September. "We want all Public Security workers on the streets facing this problem. We will not stop until we recover punitive measures that put an end to this disaster."
