Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has participated today in the signing of the agreement of accession of the City of Toledo to the System of Integral Monitoring of Cases of Gender Violence (VioGén). The act of accession has taken place within the framework of the Local Security Board that has been held in the Toledo Consistory presided over by the delegate of the Government and the mayor of the city, Carlos Velázquez.

The delegate pointed out that 2025 “is being a very sad year” and, specifically, the last weeks, with 9 women murdered in Spain due to gender violence, “one in Castilla-La Mancha and 22 throughout the year 2025 in our country”.

Therefore, “it is important that the administrations are together in this fight against gender violence.” Hence the holding of this Local Security Board to proceed with the accession of Toledo to the VioGén system to promote coordination between the National Police and the Local Police in the care of women victims of this social scourge.

In Castilla-La Mancha, the delegate said, there are 5,625 women in the VioGén system, 118 in the city of Toledo. “This means that we have to unite, because we are talking about people, women who feel attacked, who feel threatened; but we are also talking about families, children, girls, who do not understand colors, who do not understand ideologies, who only want a quick response from public administrations.”

In this case, the Government of Spain and the City of Toledo sign this collaboration agreement “so that the victims feel in a safe environment”, said Milagros Tolón, who stressed that the Government of Spain “is using many economic resources to fight against male violence”, such as the 11.4 million euros destined to Castilla-La Mancha at the last Sectoral Conference on Equality or the 7 million European funds for the centers of Attention to Women Victims of Sexual Aggression in the region.

Safe environments

For Milagros Tolón, “it is very important to make machista violence visible from all administrations so that women feel protected and protected in their closest environments” and the step taken today by the Toledo City Council contributes to this end, a gesture for which the delegate has congratulated the mayor.

Finally, he pointed out the importance of the women of the city of Toledo and Castilla-La Mancha “who at some point are vulnerable, aggrieved or threatened, call 016, because there are professionals who are going to help them and because the public administrations are going to help them so that they do not suffer the male violence neither they, nor their daughters nor their sons.

With the accession of Toledo, there are already 37 municipalities of Castilla-La Mancha integrated into this system of the Ministry of the Interior, which allows the Local Police to collaborate actively in the monitoring and protection of victims, in coordination with the National Police and the Civil Guard.

Integral system

The Comprehensive Monitoring System in Cases of Gender Violence (VioGén System), of the Secretary of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior, was put into operation on July 26, 2007, in compliance with the provisions of Organic Law 1/2004, of December 28, “on Measures of Integral Protection against Gender Violence”, its objectives being:

-Bringing together the different public institutions that have competence in the field of gender violence,

-Integrate all the information of interest that is deemed necessary,

-Make Risk Prediction (VPR Police Risk Assessment)

-Taking into account the level of risk, monitor and protect victims throughout the national territory.

Carry out preventive work, issuing warnings, alerts and alarms, through the “Automated Notification Subsystem”, when any incident or event that may endanger the integrity of the victim is detected.