The platform created by fifteen representative organizations of the National Police and the Civil Guard have once again gathered this morning in front of the Moncloa Palace, coinciding with the Council of Ministers, to demand a dignified retirement and full salary equality for police officers and Civil guards. It is the fourth time that the platform has been mobilized.
The groups claim the same retirement as local and regional police officers, with 100% of the remuneration and “with the option of anticipating it at age 59”, as they have recalled.
The platform has insisted that voluntary early retirement has been consolidated in the Ertzaintza since 2009 and has been extended to the Local Police, the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Foral Police of Navarra.
Today’s concentration has had a “bitter taste” for the group after learning that the Navarra Provincial Police, after 6 months of actions and demands, has reached the approval of the Provincial Police Regulations with a retroactive pay increase that will lead to the Navarrese agents pocket an average of more than 20,000 euros and increases in their salaries of between 300 and 1,200 euros per month.
“We understand the achievement of the Navarrese police officials and we are happy for them, but it is yet another example of the negligence of the Interior and the President of the Government that in the case of the National Police and the Civil Guard, they continue to turn a deaf ear to a measure that requires above all political will and which would mean ending the discrimination of being the only security operators who do not have access to early retirement, who are forced to be in service in a profession that the Administration refuses to recognize risk, being the only police forces that remain outside the denomination”, have highlighted from the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC).
On February 23rd, the Platform was publicly presented with the purpose of transferring to public opinion the situation suffered by the police and civil guards derived from the discrimination suffered with respect to other security operators.
Since February 28 and every other week, the platform has been concentrated on the days when the council of ministers meets in front of the Moncloa palace.
Another chapter that, as has been made clear in the protest, has not been closed is the materialization of the Salary Equalization Agreement, recalling the need to execute a new report prepared by an external consultant, where the necessary corrections and the who will have access to information regarding the financing of the Mossos and “in this way to be able to make a job-to-job comparison, a legislative initiative must also be promoted to guarantee the end once and for all of the salary dysfunctions among police officers who perform the same functions.
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