The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, today chaired the Provincial Commission for Coordination in Gender Violence, composed of various agencies of the State Administration, in which some of the data related to the fight against male violence were analyzed and delved into the adequate coordination between the different levels involved in the development of equality policies.
The committee was attended by the heads of the units against violence against women of the Subdelegation of the Government in A Coruña and the Delegation of the Government in Galicia, representatives of the office of Stranxería de A Coruña, Civil Guard, National Police Force, National Seconded Police, penitentiary center of Teixeiro and social insertion center of A Coruña.
The objective of the meeting was to focus on the establishment of adequate coordination, collaboration and communication between the organs of the General Administration of the State with competence in the field of gender violence, for which purpose it was deepened in the analysis of the problems existing in the province, the dynamics of monitoring and protection of victims to adapt them to the needs and #real situations, as well as to work in the coordination of the actions of the different organs represented in the commission.
In this regard, the committee analysed the statistics for the past year and last year, also taking into account that the data are subject to the period of confinement and , existing in the months of March, April and May.
In 2022, 2,932 complaints were registered in A Coruña out of the 7,029 that were registered in Galicia.
The number of calls in the province to 016 was 2,169 and in the first half of the year the number is 747. The increase experienced over previous years is due to several reasons, the fundamental to consolidation of the 016 service. In the year 2022 a new channel of communication was opened, the online chat to the bias of the website of the Government Delegation against Gender Violence.
In addition, the victims also have a whatsap service linked to the 016 and whose number is 600 000 016, as well as other access channels such as the number 900 116 016. The text phone for people with hearing and/or speech disabilities and email (016-online@igualdad.gob.es), which includes information, legal advice and immediate psychosocial care for victims of all types of violence against women.
There are currently in the province of A Coruña a total of 2,055 active cases within the Vioxén system of protection for victims of male violence. None is considered to be of extreme risk and 37 are of high risk, 315 of medium risk, 982 of low risk and 721 of unappreciated risk. Of these, 500 cases are for women under 30 years of age.
For all of this, the Government’s subdelegate maintains that it is unacceptable to minimize the harassment attitudes suffered by women and recalls that in 2021 804 protection orders were issued.
With these figures, María Rivas assures that “much remains to be done and we must not forget that behind every figure, every statistic, there are women and children who suffer the consequences of the most repulsive machismo. We’re not talking about numbers, we’re talking about people who see their lives threatened,” he says.
These circumstances oblige the Executive to redouble its efforts, as they have seen in recent years, in which the Government Subdelegation promoted the creation and constitution of new coordination tables in the municipalities of the province.
“It is a duty for the Government that I am able to make progress in equality policies, in the protection and prevention of victims,” said María Rivas.
In total, there are 32 local coordination tables covering a total of 36 municipalities in the province. In June 2018, there were 14 municipalities in the province that had an active local coordination table, so this figure was almost tripled.
Regarding the incorporation of local police into the Vioxén system, in 2018 there were three integrated municipalities (Arteixo, Cambre and Oleiros). The last five years saw a seven-fold increase in the number of municipalities incorporated. The integration of the municipalities into the Vioxén system allows for greater coordination of the security forces in the fight against gender violence, going from three to 22.
Despite these figures, the subdelegate calls on municipalities that have not yet integrated into the Vioxen system to integrate with their local police because it is precisely they who are closest to the victims and who know the territory best.
The subdelegation also reported on the implementation of the First Strategic Plan for the Prevention of Sexual Violence 2023/2027, the first such program approved in the European Union and which involves a strategic design that provides the security forces with new instruments to prevent sexual violence in Spain and to care for the victims of these assaults.