– DGT
The announcement that the transfer of powers in Navarra will take effect next year has been the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’…
In an open letter, traffic agents from the Civil Guard represented by the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) are considering imposing fewer fines to protest their current situation.
The members of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard have been denouncing for a long time that they must complete shifts that put their safety at risk, regulations that prevent them from carrying out educational work and all this with scarce and obsolete material. The announcement that the transfer of powers in Navarra will take effect next year has been the latest trigger.
Open letter from traffic agents
“The Civil Guards of the Traffic Group are tired of being numbers in a voraciously fed statistic through complaints filed against citizens who commit offenses on different roads,” they denounce in the letter to which autobild.es has had access. .
“We are going to continue watching over the roads and monitoring the safety of the inhabitants, but we are firmly convinced that the method to achieve that safety is not through complaints; for this reason, among other reasons, we are considering carrying out a campaign to raise awareness citizens about certain infractions, leaving oppression in the background”, they announce.
Who deals with traffic in Navarra
The last straw for the patience of the agents has been the confirmation of the transfer of traffic powers in Navarra.
During the approval session of the General State Budget (PGE) for 2023 and at the request of Bildu, it was announced that it will be next March when the change announced many months ago but apparently forgotten will become effective.
For AUGEC, the fact that the Foral Police of Navarre (in the image above) is responsible for monitoring traffic in the region “is the beginning of the slow but inexorable process of dismemberment of the Traffic Group.” His main concern is that, for the moment, “there is no certainty about the future of the colleagues posted in Navarra.”
They also fear that the transfer of powers in Navarra (as has been the case for years in Catalonia and the Basque Country) will extend to territories “such as Galicia, the Canary Islands, Valencia or Andalusia within one, five or ten years”.
Strike of ‘dropped pens’
It is not the first time that the Traffic agents of the Civil Guard announce a strike of dropped pens as a measure so that their requests are heard.
For them, education and prevention “is a more appropriate task than the pure repression that is demanded of us through a perverse system of individual assessment to which the remuneration of the Traffic Civil Guards is linked.”
From the AUGC, which has already denounced the collection effort of the DGT on more than one occasion (this is the reason why, in his opinion, Pere Navarro opts for section radars instead of conventional ones); That is why they think that putting fewer fines may be the best speaker for their requests to be heard.
The Civil Guards association calls for “the cleaning of the facilities, some of which have been in deplorable conditions for almost a year; warm or rain clothes that have been waiting for more than two years; helmets and vests with airbags for those who serve in motorbike; bulletproof vests; and a long etcetera”.