The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, presided this morning together with the mayor of Carral, Javier Gestal, at the meeting of the Xunta Local de Seguridad where a positive assessment of the security data of the city council was made, highlighting the collaboration and coordination between the State Security Forces and Bodies and the Local Police.
In this sense, a subdelegate wanted to highlight that taking into account the data of the year 2023, the city of Carral has a crime rate that is 7 points below the provincial average, being in Carral 30 crimes per thousand inhabitants and 37 per thousand for the whole province. This rate is also below the Galician average and well below the state average of 50 crimes per thousand inhabitants.
María Rivas expressed her satisfaction with the work that is also reflected in the improvement of clarifications both in the case of minor offences that improves by 6.8 points; and in the case of criminal offences that improves by 3.18 points. In this regard, María Rivas stressed that “collaboration and constant research are key to the resolution and to improving police effectiveness, and the data of this city supports that work.”
VioGen
Another important point of the meeting was the analysis of data relating to gender violence. The subdelegate reported that at the moment, in the province of A Coruña they indicate that there are 2,221 victims in VioGen.
Rivas insisted on the need for all administrations to be fully involved in the fight against male violence, remembering that “each of the 2,221 victims, are an inescapable reason, a daily reminder that we must work constantly to protect women and their families. The fight against gender violence is an objective to which we want to add more and more effective and more means, hence the constant impulse that from the subdelegation of the government we give so that every day there are more municipalities adhered to VioGen.”
For this reason, María Rivas again pointed out the collaboration and coordination of the administrations as an essential tool to improve the protection of victims of gender violence, and invited the mayor to appreciate the incorporation of the city council to the VioGen protocol, an appeal that extends to the municipalities that have local police so that among all of us we can improve this service.
Thus, he recalled that in the province there are already 21 municipalities that formalized their incorporation to VioGen, and that another 9 municipalities are currently in the process of accession. He also stressed the importance of working through the Interinstitutional Coordination Tables, which currently operate in 39 municipalities, transferring to the mayor all the necessary support to create the Table in Carral.
The City of Carral received 26,027.56 euros since 2018 within the framework of the State Pact against Gender Violence for the development of activities for prevention and awareness in this matter.