They denounce the "lack of commitment" of the Yaiza Town Hall with its Police

The Yaiza Town Hall offers, year after year, vacant positions that never get filled permanently, according to the police and firefighters union.

January 29 2022 (16:27 WET)
Updated in January 29 2022 (16:27 WET)
Yaiza Local Police in an archive image
Yaiza Local Police in an archive image

"In the Yaiza Town Hall, the personnel policy resembles a score without an orchestra," says the Police and Firefighters Union (SPPLB)." You only have to take a look at the Local Police Force to see how the leopard-like technique of the mayor, Óscar Noda, has worked perfectly: cosmetic changes so that nothing changes," they add.

"Without counting the several Agents who are in temporary disability, there are more than 10 vacant positions without a solution of continuity, despite the job offers published, which are nothing more than a toast to the sun," they criticize from the union. For the SPPLB, "the only merit made by the Consistory has been the granting of a commission of voluntary services, which was granted to an Agent and in a presumably irregular manner, a matter that, by the way, has been denounced by this formation before the courts."

From the trade union organization they state that "to the worrying lack of personnel, which will increase due to the upcoming retirements, we must add the lack of intermediate commanders who structure the hierarchical structure of any police force. These facts, together with other erratic actions, reflect the lack of vision of a Corporation that instead of advancing, remains determined to have a Local Police Force anchored in the 20th century."

According to Zebenzuí González Rancel, Autonomous Secretary of the SPPLB in the Canary Islands, “the policies implemented with the Local Police of Yaiza are at a standstill: there is no dynamism whatsoever. This trade union formation is not demanding salary increases, but improvements in human resources, which guarantee the safety and well-being of the residents of Yaiza, as well as that of the tens of thousands of visitors it receives annually.”

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