The Government has admitted that “some units of the Special Rescue Group for Mountain Intervention (GREIM) of the Civil Guard in Catalonia and Navarre have been suppressed for “operational” reasons. He explains that the alerts are derived from the 112 emergency service of each region to the specific services of the autonomous communities, to the detriment of the Armed Institute.
“The incidents that arise in this area are being dealt with by specific rescue services or by fire teams belonging to the autonomous administration itself, to which responsibility for them is assigned from 112”, the Government has indicated in a parliamentary response.
“That is why, in response to technical and operational issues, directly related to the efficiency of the service within the Civil Guard, the GREIM of Roncal and Puigcerdá have been suppressed”, he pointed out, referring to these two municipalities of Navarre and Girona.
In its letter dated April 4, the Executive speaks of the “reorganization” of GREIM and justifies it in that it has “considered it appropriate to update the territorial distribution in order to adapt it to the exponential increase in the activity of this specialty in the natural environment”. .
In recent months, different professional associations of the Civil Guard have questioned the plans of the regional governments with their own police forces due to the clash of powers, especially in the case of the Mossos d’Esquadra in regard to the maritime service, a matter addressed in Congress.
These associations, in fact, have highlighted that most of the interventions are referred to the Mossos from the 112 emergency service, which depends on the regional Administration and in whose room there are no representatives from the Security Forces and Bodies of the State, either Civil Guard or National Police.
In the response to the deputy Pablo Cambronero, the Executive begins by denying that it is “progressively suppressing operational units of the Civil Guard from the territories of the Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country, Navarra and Catalonia”. It also refers to the continuous analysis of the deployment and the human resources available to “adapt them to an effective fulfillment of their missions in the best possible conditions.”
The Government then refers to the “reorganization” of the units in charge of deactivating explosives. “The need for each unit to have a greater number of components to give a more efficient response has led the Civil Guard to carry out a reorganization of the CBRN Explosives Disposal and Defense Service (SEDEX-CBRN),” he points out.
Since 2016, the Special Group for the Deactivation of Explosive Devices (GEDEX) of the Basque Country Zone has acted in a coordinated manner from Vizcaya, “concentrating its personnel at the GEDEX headquarters of the aforementioned province, given that this autonomous community has a small area and good communication routes”.
Something similar occurs in the case of Lleida, although in this case they clarify that the “suppression of the GEDEX does not mean a decrease in the number of specialists dedicated to the functions of the specialty, quite the contrary”. “It represents”, the Government specifies, “an improvement in the operation of these units by reinforcing other GEDEX, specifically the one in Navarra, Zaragoza and Barcelona”.
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