The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas; the Mayor of Sada, Oscar Benito Portela; and the Head of the Command of the Civil Guard in A Coruña, Fernando Pedreira, signed this morning, at the Xunta Local de Seguridad convened for that purpose, the protocol of accession to the VioGen system for the protection of women victims of gender violence.
With the signing of the agreement the city of Sada, will be incorporated to the 21 municipalities of the province of A Coruña that are fully integrated into the VioGen system. With this new step taken at the meeting of the Xunta Local de Seguridad, Sada is one of the 9 municipalities in the process of incorporation that will materialize in the coming months.
After signing the protocol, a subdelegate expressed her satisfaction with the incorporation of Sada into the system stating that “VioGen is an essential and necessary tool to move decisively in the protection of victims of male violence”; she also stressed that “the fight against gender violence is a task in which all institutions must be involved to the maximum”.
María Rivas stressed the importance of municipalities being part of this system of surveillance and protection of victims, because as she explained “it is the local administration that is closest to the neighbors and neighbors, and therefore, the local police of each city have a greater knowledge of the reality and therefore enrich and improve the service they provide.”
Currently in the province of A Coruña there are 2,232 victims of gender violence with active cases in the province, “there are 2,232 reasons that force us to continue working to improve their protection, 2,232 women who need the presence and police care to feel safe every day and move forward with their lives, many of them with children in their care who also suffer and whose protection is also a priority”, so he recalled that on the road to the eradication of male violence we must work daily without rest.
María Rivas called on municipalities that are not yet part of VioGen to join the system, and that among all the institutions, with more involvement and collaboration, we can “continue moving towards the eradication of violence against women”
VioGen makes it possible for the Local Police to have more information about active cases of male violence within the municipality. In this way, local police officers follow up and monitor some of these cases, usually those considered to be of low or unappreciated risk level. In the cases that are most at risk, it is the Civil Guard that is responsible for monitoring.
The subdelegate highlighted the activities carried out under the State Pact against Gender Violence, as another example of the collaboration between the different institutions in this matter, and for which the city of Sada received from 2018 a total of 45,967.18 euros within the framework of the State Pact: “They are training, awareness-raising and prevention actions that are carried out at the local level and that are very necessary to advance social awareness.”