Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has highlighted the fundamental role of the State Security Forces and Bodies in the care of victims of gender violence. “You are part of the mechanism that directly serves women who suffer violence from their partners or ex-partners,” he said, stressing that “in these moments of uncertainty it is up to you to protect them and accompany them in a very difficult process.”
A few words that the delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha said at the opening of the day of good practices ‘Sexual violence as one of the forms of violence against women’, held at the Infantry Academy of Toledo. An activity organized by the Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Subdelegation in Toledo, aimed at the National Police and Civil Guard, and attended by about one hundred personnel, including local police officers from four municipalities with VioGén agreements already signed.
Tierraseca stressed that, for the Government of Spain, and for the Government Delegation, “action against gender violence is one of the priorities” and said that, in that objective, “training is one of the most powerful tools”. If, in addition, this training is carried out with the professionals of the State Security Forces and Corps, added Tierraseca, “the value of the training multiplies exponentially.”
In this regard, the delegate thanked the attendees for their interest in specializing, “in knowing how to act, in knowing the resources to tackle this scourge that has already taken the lives of 50 women in our country, the last of them, last week in our Autonomous Community; the second in Castilla-La Mancha this year.”
In addition, said Tierraseca, participation in these days provides police officers with “another strength”, which means contact and coordination with other Security Forces, organizations and institutions, which will result in greater coordination of actions and effectiveness in the prevention of new cases and protection of victims.
National police and civil guards are also fundamental “in the work of sensitization and awareness”, through the Women and Minors Teams of the Civil Guard (EMUME) and the Family and Women Care Units of the National Police (UFAM), through the talks that police and civil guards offer in the educational centers (within the Master Plan of Coexistence and Improvement of Security in the educational centers and their environments), and, especially, “where you are present, with your daily treatment to the citizens, because the Civil Guard is a reality.
In Castilla-La Mancha there are currently 4,567 active cases of gender violence, of which 4,058 have some kind of protection and 35 of them are cases of high risk “cases in which there is an imminent risk that the woman will suffer an attack by her partner or ex-partner”. And, another fact to take into account, he said, is that there are 236 of these women who have a Cometa device (telematic control device).
Tierraseca has concluded with an appeal to the citizens “so that they do not street, so that they are not complicit”, to denounce or bring to the attention of the authorities a case of gender violence. “There,” he said, “you also have a fundamental role, that of generating trust so that we are more and more the people who come to you to denounce these situations; especially in rural areas, where everyone knows each other and where it is not always easy.”
The inauguration was also attended by the head of the Toledo Command, the provincial commissioner of the National Police, the director of the Infantry Academy, the deputy delegate of the Government of Spain in Toledo and the head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the Subdelegation of Toledo.