The delegate of the Government, Delia Losa, has co-chaired the Local Security Board of Villaviciosa together with the mayor, Alejandro Vega. The meeting approved the adherence of the Local Police to the “Protocol of Collaboration and Coordination between the State Security Forces and the Local Police Forces, for the protection of victims of domestic and gender violence.”
Thus, in the absence of the signing of the agreement between the Ministry of the Interior and the City of Villaviciosa, the municipality becomes part of the VioGén System. In practice, the Local Police will collaborate with the Guardia Civilç, which until now assumed in the council the protection and monitoring of victims of gender violence, having access to the system to be able to consult the information of active cases and record information at their disposal. To date in Villaviciosa there are 16 active cases and none of them is of extreme or high risk.
The VioGén System is a computer application of the Ministry of the Interior that has been in operation for fifteen years and is used by the State Security Forces and Bodies for the monitoring, care and protection of women victims of gender violence. It allows a comprehensive monitoring of their movements, of the protection measures adopted, as well as an estimate of the risk presented by each case and of the evolution of the level of risk during the duration of the measures.
The possibility of the Local Police participating in the protection of victims of gender violence and accessing the VioGén System is included in art. 31 of the Organic Law on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence. In addition, the State Pact against Gender Violence includes the need to “promote the signing of agreements between the Ministry of the Interior and the municipalities, so that the Local Police can carry out the protection of the victim, once their level of risk has been assessed by the State Security Forces.”
With the incorporation of Villaviciosa, there are already ten municipalities incorporated into the VioGén System in Asturias. It joins Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés, Langreo, Mieres, Siero, Nava, Cangas de Onís and Valdés.