The Head of the Coordination Unit Against Violence Against Women of the Government Delegation in Melilla, Laura Segura, has highlighted the new model of police response to gender violence, with new indicators in the risk assessment forms and a better calibration of the algorithms that determine these levels, to reduce the risk of error in the assessment made.
Segura explained that this model is based on two instruments: the VioGen 2 system, which 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 Secretariat of State for Security since 2018.
“This new model is based on the same strengths with which it was born in 2007, the combination of the most advanced technology with the experience and criteria of specialized police agents” and “will allow greater concretion and a greater guarantee of security, strengthening coordination and collaboration between the different agents involved”, he defended.
“Faced with the challenge of achieving a society free of violence against women, we all have a great responsibility,” he said. “Gender violence is not a problem that should be solved only by police or criminal means,” he said.
VioGene System 2
Since the launch of the Comprehensive Monitoring System for Cases of Gender Violence (VioGén System) in July 2007, various modifications have been made to improve its operation and results, but in 2023 it was concluded that it was necessary to design a new computer platform, which has been tested for seven months in different National Police stations and Civil Guard headquarters.
The Head of the Unit has detailed that the VioGen 2 System “incorporates technical and functional improvements at different levels that allow to increase practical management, improve collaboration channels with other institutions and interconnect databases related to the fight against gender violence.”
“Among other innovations, it incorporates new indicators in the risk assessment forms and a better calibration of the algorithms that determine these levels, which reduces the risk of error in the assessment made,” he said. In addition, this new system improves interconnection and interoperability and increases databases and other police applications that feed information into the system.
Protocol 2025
The operation of VioGén 2 is inseparable from the new Protocol for the Assessment and Police Management of the Level of Risk of Gender Violence and Follow-up of Cases through the VioGén 2 System (Protocol 2025), approved by the Secretary of State for Security to integrate, consolidate and update all the regulations and instructions issued in the matter since 2018.
Protocol 2025 addresses issues that affect the daily work of police units in the specific treatment of certain cases of gender violence, for which it classifies and structures both the mandatory police protection measures according to each level of risk and the elaboration of the Personalized Security Protection Plan.
Disappears ‘unappreciated’ risk level
With Protocol 2025, the 'Not Appreciated' level of risk disappears. In this way, the risk levels are reduced from five to four: 'Low', 'Medium', 'High' and 'Extreme'. The 'Low' level is subclassified into two levels by virtue of the existence or not of judicial measures in force. For its part, a new type of case is incorporated that is "the supervised case".