Ciudad Real.- The subdelegate of the Government in the province of Ciudad Real, María de los Ángeles Herreros, and the mayor of the town, Gema García, have signed, in the Local Security Board, the eleventh VioGén protocol of the province.
As early as 2021, the first steps were taken with the signing, of the 'Local Protocol of Action and Interinstitutional Coordination for the Improvement of the Care of Women Victims of Gender Violence and Sexual Assault and/or Abuse'.
What is intended with the signing of this VioGén agreement is to promote the operational procedure of collaboration and coordination between the Command of the Civil Guard and the Local Police of the City of Calzada de Calatrava, regulating the forms and procedures of collaboration between the Security Forces and Bodies, aimed at ensuring the safety of victims of gender violence.
The Comprehensive Monitoring System in Cases of Gender Violence (VioGen System) allows public institutions that have competence in the field of gender violence to monitor the protection of victims according to the level of risk assigned to them, carrying out preventive work and issuing warnings/alarms when any incident or event that may endanger the integrity of a victim is detected.
Therefore, this agreement establishes the basic criteria for collaboration and coordination between both police forces, allowing the optimization of human and material resources in order to give preferential attention to these victims. In Calzada de Calatrava there are three active VioGen cases.
The subdelegate of the Government has thanked the municipality for having signed an agreement that will improve the effectiveness of the protection of victims of gender violence. In addition, Herreros wanted to encourage the other municipalities of the province to join the Viogén System since “it is a fundamental system when it comes to protecting victims and improving the attention of each case through a comprehensive follow-up plan”, in the words of Herreros.
For her part, the mayor thanked the workers of the Women’s Center, and all the members of both the Local Police and the Civil Guard “for their dedication and the degree of involvement with the victims, their families, as well as the work of raising awareness that they do towards all the citizens of Cázadeña”.
With this, the total number of VioGén agreements active in the province amounts to eleven: Puertollano, Ciudad Real, Socuéllamos, Argamasilla de Calatrava, Alcázar de San Juan, La Solana, Manzanares, Malagón, Villarrubia de los Ojos, Almadén and, from now on, Calzada de Calatrava.
In addition to the deputy delegate and the mayor, the lieutenant colonel, head of the Royal City Command, Juan A, were present. Valle, the captain of the Company, Javier López, the head of the local police, Jesús Alberto Parrilla, the head of the Unit against Gender Violence of the Subdelegation of the Government in Ciudad Real, Carmen Pimienta, the head of Citizen Protection of the Board of Communities, José Luis Villanueva, as well as the workers of the Women's Center and several councilors of the Corporation.