The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has highlighted the Conference "Training in Gender Violence for Security Forces and Bodies", organized by the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women, which has hosted today the Command of the Civil Guard. “It is important that days like this are organized because the State Security Forces (FyCSE) are the first people that victims of gender violence meet, once they take that step forward to formalize a complaint,” he said.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city, who explained that this day is part of the actions that are being organized around 25N, has highlighted the importance of both the Civil Guard, the National Police and the other institutions “working together and coordinated to eradicate this scourge”, while highlighting the importance of raising awareness and sensitizing society and that, “among all of us, we can continue working and fighting to end this problem”.
The head of the Government Delegation thanked María Luisa Calcerrado Alcázar, Commander of the Civil Guard, Head of the Group Crimes against Persons, Department of Criminal Intelligence and Coordination, Technical Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard; and Juan Enrique Soto Castro, Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Criminal Investigation of the International University of La Rioja (UNEN) and Chief Inspector in Second Activity, creator of the Section of Analysis of Conduct, until our Central Intelligence Unit has been displaced.
He has also had words of thanks for the other participants, this is for the Chief Prosecutor of the Area Prosecutor’s Office of Melilla and Specialist Prosecutor for Gender Violence, Laura Santa Pau; the Head of the Area of Crimes Against Persons of the Organic Judicial Police Unit of the Civil Guard, Salvador Vargas; and the Head of the Family and Women Unit (UFAM) and Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police of the Superior Headquarters of Melilla, Francisco Aguilar. “Without them, these days would not be a success,” he said.
Training and specialization
Laura Segura, for her part, wanted to point out that these days “continue with the training work that the FyCSE do within their fields of work on gender violence, in terms of the specialization of violence teams.”
But, in turn, he pointed out that, with these days “we wanted a training to be carried out for those agents who are involved in gender violence, but not directly from the UFAM teams, the Woman-Minor Team (EMUME), or the Follow-up of Removal Orders (SOA) unit of the Local Police, but in the complaint offices or as the ‘Z’s and those people who come to the first moments”. For this reason, he pointed out that they are days “not only of specialization, but, in turn, also of awareness and training, in general”.
Thus, the conferences have addressed police action and investigation and the psychological profile of the aggressors of gender violence and sexual violence and how to act in the cases of investigation. As for the tables, they have dealt with different issues that have to do with the current situation in our city in terms of gender violence, such as the latest updates in terms of legislation on gender violence, actions with minors who are immersed in gender violence, as well as gender cyberviolence, “a new camouflaged violence that is reaching right now many young people in our country but also adults and that is one more form of gender violence, and that has managed to mask this machismo”.
In her speech, Segura explained that they have the data of complaints in the city and throughout the country, but stressed that it is “the tip of the iceberg”.
“We know that 25% are reported, that the rest of the gender violence is hidden,” she said. She has also pointed out that we talk about the reports of gender violence in the context of the couple or former couple, “but gender violence is much more than violence in the context of the couple,” she has warned and referred to trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, sexual violence, forced marriages, forced abortion, forced sterilization and violence in forms of harassment suffered by women.
The Head of the Unit has shown her desire for collaboration networks to emerge between all the institutions and for these to be the first days of many, “not because we want there to be days but because we know that training and, above all, specialization saves lives and that, while there is gender violence, we will need to continue training professionals”.
The Conference was opened by the Delegate and the Head of the Unit together with the Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard, Arturo Ortega, and the Superior Chief of Police, José Antonio Togores, and attended by more than a hundred officers from the Benemérita, the National Police Force and the Local Police, as well as representatives of institutions and social entities linked to the fight against gender violence.