The mayor maintains that only two agents are provided to cover the services and that there is a lack of staff in the workforce
The Workers’ Commissions union (CC OO) yesterday denounced the “scandalous” distribution of overtime in the Moratalla Local Police force. According to sources from this organization, the accidental boss and another cash would have received between them more than 17,000 euros for work carried out in the months of July, August and September of last year. This fact has provoked the anger of other police officers, who criticize a distribution that they describe as “disproportionate”, they indicate from said union central.
As THE TRUTH has been able to know, the accidental head of this body notified, through a letter presented to the City Council, the distribution of the aforementioned overtime hours. “I inform you that, in a session held by the Local Government Board on April 1, 2022, and after the deliberation of the members present that legally make it up, the agreement on the draft of the minutes pending approval was adopted”, headed the text sent to the Consistory. In it, the head of this body detailed all the extra hours that he had carried out in the past summer season.
The police officer also alluded to the special availability regime, approved by the City Council with the approval of the Corps, “for the performance of strictly necessary services in order to complete the quadrant and guarantee the safety of the residents.”
According to the union, the accidental boss would have received 11,875 euros, while the other agent who performed the services would have received a total of 5,798 euros. “It seems absurd to us that only two agents have worked overtime, because it is something that has made the rest of the officers of this body feel bad,” they criticized from CC OO.
“Others did not want to work”
To questions from this newspaper, the mayor of Moratalla, the socialist Jesús Amo, was surprised by the union’s complaint. «I am very surprised, since there are several agents who did not want to put in a single extra hour. In fact, several of them submitted letters to me in which they stated that they did not want to work beyond the stipulated time. Come on, that they were not willing and that they renounced overtime in this way, ”said the mayor.
He explained that “in the municipality we only have seven agents, and two of them are on leave. It is a quite insufficient number, because we have to ‘pull’ the Civil Guard on many occasions. In addition, here in Moratalla we have 22 agents in the Police Corps, and now look how we are.
«The truth is that from the City Council we spoke with the agents and offered them work for overtime that was necessary during last summer. And now that? Do they complain when they see what two of their classmates have perceived? Well, that they had worked like them, “said the first mayor. Union sources explained that the agents did not lend themselves to work given the delay in the payment of services.
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