- The government delegate and the mayor of Rivas-Vaciamadrid sign the accession protocol
- Francisco Martín: “On a sad day for Madrid society” due to the “terrible outpouring of male violence”, “we have to review what is failing”
- The government delegate encourages women who suffer abuse and their environments to report it: “Let’s help them”
- With the incorporation of Rivas there are already 34 municipalities in Madrid adhering to this system
The City of Rivas-Vaciamadrid has approved the incorporation of its Local Police into the VioGén System comprehensive monitoring of cases of gender violence. The Local Security Board, meeting this afternoon, has agreed the accession of the municipality to the “Protocol of Collaboration and Coordination between the State Security Forces and the Local Police Corps for the protection of victims of domestic and gender violence” (signed by the Ministry of the Interior and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, on March 13, 2006).
The meeting, co-chaired by the government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, and by the mayor of Rivas, Aída Castillejo, also approved the signing of the “Operational Procedure of Coordination and Collaboration between the Command of the Civil Guard of Madrid and the City of Rivas-Vaciamadrid, of integral response against gender violence”.
Francisco Martín and Aída Castillejo have signed this Procedure by which the Local Police of Rivas will share the data that the Civil Guard has on cases of gender violence in the municipality and will participate in its follow-up for a more effective protection of victims of gender violence.
Francisco Martín: “You have to check what’s going wrong”
Prior to the meeting, and in statements to the media, the government delegate stressed that, “on a sad day for Madrid society, due to the terrible outpouring of male violence” – with the death of two women at the hands of their ex-partners and a girl – “there can be no hesitation”. “We must continue to commit our work in the public administrations to thoroughly review what is failing so that we are not able to stop this barbarity.”
Francisco Martín has valued the protocol signed with the mayor of Rivas as “an important step to give more effective protection to women victims of gender violence, to advance coordination with the security forces and bodies so that women feel safer, and to send a strong message of unity.”
Finally, Francisco Martín has sent a message to all women who are victims of gender violence to denounce their situation, and to family members and their environments, to help “take that step and break the circles of social, economic and affective dependence that hold them to their abusers. It is everyone’s responsibility to help them out of that fear,” he concluded.
There are already 34 municipalities of Madrid integrated in VioGén
With the incorporation of Rivas-Vaciamadrid, there are already 34 municipalities in the Community of Madrid whose Local Police participate in the VioGén system of comprehensive follow-up of cases of gender violence.
These municipalities are: Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Alcorcón, Aranjuez, Arganda del Rey, Boadilla del Monte, Brunete, Colmenar Viejo, Daganzo de Arriba, Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Leganés, Madrid, Majadahonda, Moralzarzal, Móstoles, Parla, Pinto, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Las Rozas de Madrid, San Agustín de Guadalix, San Antonio Alveda, Torres
On the 22nd, the City Council of San Sebastián de los Reyes signed the renewal of the Protocols of police collaboration to remain in the Viogén System.
The Government Delegation is currently in talks with several municipalities to ensure that their local police officers maintain or integrate this system to combat gender violence.