Ciudad Real.- The deputy delegate of the Government of Spain in the province of Ciudad Real, María de los Ángeles Herreros, and the mayor of Alcázar de San Juan, Rosa Melchor, have signed, in the Local Security Board, the protocol of the VioGén System.
The protocol has been signed with the main objective of deepening protection measures for victims of gender violence to improve their effectiveness and prevent the risk of new attacks, thanks to the collaboration of the National Police and the local police.
This signature allows, with the Comprehensive Monitoring System in Cases of Gender Violence (VioGén System) of the Secretary of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior, to monitor the protection of victims according to the level of risk assigned to them and to carry out preventive work, issuing warnings and alarms when any incident or event that may endanger the integrity of a victim is detected.
The deputy delegate of the Government, María de los Ángeles Herreros, thanked “the will of the mayor and the City Council to deepen and improve the protection of women suffering from male violence. “I know that you already collaborate and work on it and I am convinced that with the signing of the protocol, the attention and work you provide will be strengthened and improved,” she said. This step means “more coordination and better control of protection measures and, therefore, more security for victims,” said Herreros.
The protocol has been signed with a validity of four years, its extension may be agreed to another four additional years and does not entail cost for any of the parties, nor transfer of economic resources between them.
The mayor of Alcázar de San Juan, for her part, said that “we do not settle, nor lower our guard, unfortunately it is not always easy to prevent this crime, but with this firm we want to take another step to strengthen the protection of victims”.
In addition, in the Security Board were present the provincial chief commissioner of the National Police of Ciudad Real, José Alberto Camacho, the chief inspector responsible for the National Police Station of Alcázar de San Juan, Julián Maroto, the head of the local Police, Miguel Ángel Martínez, as well as the councillor for Citizen Security, Mariano Cuartero, and the councillor for Equality, Patricia Benito, the director of the Women's Center, María Isabel Fernández, the director of Social Services, María Salmizar.