The Granada City Council has called for an extraordinary session this Wednesday, March 12, at 12:00, requested two weeks ago by the PSOE municipal group for the local PP government to provide explanations regarding the management of the Local Police.
The request for the session came after the previous week, within the framework of a judicial investigation into alleged irregularities in selection and internal promotion processes within the municipal security body, raids were conducted on its premises involving agents from the National Police’s Unit for Economic and Fiscal Crimes (Udef).
In a statement, the City Council detailed that this session will take place on March 12 to address the management of the municipal security body, in compliance with the Local Government Regulatory Law.
The extraordinary session request, reviewed by Europa Press after being submitted on the morning of February 26, during the last ordinary plenary meeting, demands «truthful information» from Granada’s Mayor, Marifrán Carazo, regarding «the serious events that have occurred in the Local Police in recent weeks.»
Since January 30, according to the socialist request for the extraordinary session, «this city has been shaken by scandals within the Local Police,» and the people of Granada are aware, according to the PSOE, of «a series of complaints that the PP government team has preferred to ignore until the situation became untenable, leading to the Court of Instruction number 4 in Granada ordering raids on municipal premises.»
The local government, the request continued, «has been unable to make any decisions until witnessing the entry of the Udef into the headquarters of the Granada Police and other municipal premises.»
In line with this, during an informative appearance on Tuesday with socialist councilor Raquel Ruz, the PSOE spokesperson in the Granada City Council, Paco Cuenca, demanded Carazo, as stated in a press release, to «return the access permits for fine control to the local police officers of Granada.»
As indicated by the socialist municipal group, «the management and control of fines are concentrated in the police and political leadership of Carazo,» with the councilors for Presidency and Mobility, Jorge Saavedra and Ana Agudo, «exercising.»
Cuenca called for «transparency, to prevent fines from being removed at will, and to ensure that ongoing investigations conducted by local agents related to other services such as the control of public space occupancy and other areas of police management are not affected.»
He also requested the PP to specify which «councilors» of their government have had a fine withdrawn, and whether the standard procedures for these cases have been followed, how to submit an appeal against the fine, to have it removed if the requirements are met.
«OPACITY» IN THE CASE OF FINES
The PSOE spokesperson pointed out that the «opacity» surrounding what he referred to as the Fines case and the lack of explanation have forced Carazo’s government to «face up» in an extraordinary session this Wednesday.
«Doubts persist, and nothing has been clarified about the PP’s decision to concentrate all fine management in their former Police Chief, an unprecedented event in this city, which highlights the opacity and bossism with which it has been governed» in the last two years, Cuenca stated, also referring to José Manuel Jiménez Avilés, who resigned from leading the municipal security force following the Udef raids.
FUENTE