The Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation presented, this morning, through a day in the Government Delegation in Galicia the update of the functionalities of the VioGén System in the Galician, Valencian and Cantabrian community.
The training day was attended by a total of 122 Galician professionals belonging to the 84 Municipal Women’s Information Centers (CIM). Of this total, 52 professionals went to the Delegation to receive the training in person and 77 were connected telematically from the different Galician provinces: 15 from Lugo, 38 from Pontevedra and 24 from Ourense.
María Debén, the head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Delegation, was in charge of presenting the day in which various representatives of the Galician provinces participated. Debén thanked Carlos Marín Pérez, Civil Guard and social worker, for thinking about our community to execute the training, because he considers the VioGén System as a “fundamental tool to help all victims who suffer from male violence in all its variants, both in Galicia and in other communities”.
The formation was divided into two parts: in the first Marín explained the evolution of the VioGén System by sharing its history with the rest of the west and explaining what the system consists of and why it is important. The second part, given by the technical manager of the system, Julián Sierra Rodríguez, was dedicated to the explanation of the functionalities of the system aimed at social service personnel.
The VioGén 2 System includes a set of instruments that fight against male violence, collaborates in the protection of all victims and provides professionals with the necessary resources to deal with this problem.
The professionals describe the VioGén System as a key tool to supplement a historical claim that had been demanded, for years, by the collective of professionals who fight daily against male violence. “This platform achieves the one that other databases did not. The VioGén System greases and coordinates the police units of our country,” said Marín.
NEWS OF THE VIOGÉN 2 SYSTEM IN POLICE TEAMS
Galicia has a total of 84 municipal Information Centers for Women (CIM) in the VioGén system of the Ministry of the Interior. This was reported a few weeks ago by the government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, during an act of revulsion for the machista murders committed in Burgos and the Balearic Islands.
In the following days, the new VioGén model was presented in the different delegations of the Galician Government, aimed at the gender violence teams of the National Police, Local and the Civil Guard. This new system incorporates the most advanced technology in the field and Protocol 2025, which brings together and updates all the innovations introduced by the successive instructions issued by the Secretary of State for Security since 2018.
The VioGen 2 System adds important new features such as: the improvement of the risk assessment algorithm, the interoperability of databases, the ability to respond during the protection process, the security of the system, automated notifications, as well as various cybersecurity measures, with which victims of harassment are protected through electronic devices and social networks.
Improvements that are also reflected in Protocol 2025, in which, as a main novelty, the disappearance of the level of risk ‘Not Appreciated’ is highlighted, thus leaving four levels: ‘Low’, ‘Medium’, ‘High’ and ‘Extreme’. Thus, for cases of greater risk, a longer period is established with which more effective protection is guaranteed. This set of innovations allows to correctly treat cases of gender-based violence of special relevance: with minors, persistent aggressors and victims vulnerable or reluctant to police interventions.