- The incorporation of the Local Police Corps of Cartagena into the VioGen System is also necessary to activate the Protocol of collaboration and coordination between the State Security Forces and Bodies and the Local Police Corps for the protection of victims of domestic violence and Gender ', signed between the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and the Ministry of the Interior in 2006.
- "We can not afford to do without any tool to fight against gender violence," said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.
Cartagena, August 16.
Citizens will request in the next plenary session that the City of Cartagena carry out the necessary procedures for the Local Police to join the System of Integral Monitoring in Cases of Gender Violence (VioGen System).
On July 16, the national deputy of Citizens, José Luis Martínez, publicly denounced the little attention paid by the municipalities of the Region to the VioGén computer system, a plan in force since 2007 that consists of an updated computer network that Allows to consult any information regarding cases of domestic violence and the current situation of victim and aggressor.
At the local level, only three of the forty-five municipalities of the Region, Águilas, Santomera and Alhama de Murcia, have so far applied for membership in this system.
The incorporation of the Local Police Corps of Cartagena into the VioGén System is also necessary to activate the Protocol of collaboration and coordination between the Forces and Bodies of State Security and the Local Police Corps for the protection of victims of domestic violence and gender ', Signed between the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and the Ministry of the Interior in 2006.
"We can not afford to do without any tool to fight against gender violence, and it should be a priority on the political agenda to work with whatever means we have at our disposal to end this scourge," said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, which explained that "all the information regarding each case is found in the database of this system, which analyzes the risk in real time, making predictions and generating alerts, for example, when there is a victim of gender violence in A municipality and its aggressor is registered as a worker in the same or another nearby. "
"We do not understand how this disinterest on the part of the municipalities of the Community, and I hope that the complaint of our national deputy and our motion serves to stimulate the other municipalities of the Community to join this network," said Manuel Padín .
As reported by the website of the Ministry of the Interior, the Comprehensive Monitoring System for Gender Violence (VioGen System) of the Secretariat of State for Security was put into operation on July 26, 2007, in compliance with Established in Organic Law 1/2004, of December 28, on 'Measures of Integral Protection against Gender Violence'.
Among the objectives of this system is to bring together the different public institutions that have competencies in the area of ​​gender violence, to integrate all the information of interest that is deemed necessary, to predict the risk, to monitor and protect the victims throughout the country. National territory, and carry out a preventive work, issuing warnings, alerts and alarms, through the "Automated Notifications Subsystem", when any incident or event that could endanger the integrity of the victim is detected.
The purpose is ultimately to establish a dense network that allows the rapid and comprehensive and effective follow-up and protection of abused women and their children in any part of the national territory.
The incorporation into the system is carried out at the request of the city council concerned, with the Violence and Violence Coordination Units on Women of the Government Delegations responsible for coordinating the documentation necessary for the incorporation of the local police.
The protocol for the incorporation of these bodies into the VioGen System is included in the so-called Collaboration Agreement between the Ministry of the Interior and the corresponding City Council, signed by the Secretary of State for Security and by the requesting mayor.
And it specifies in its ninth clause that "it does not entail expenses for the Ministry of the Interior", nor for the City Council.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena