Police protest in Barcelona for the transfer of immigration and borders to the Mossos

The Unified Police Union (SUP) has convened a protest in Barcelona this Tuesday, February 11, before the Government Delegation for the Transfer of competencies in immigration and borders to the Mossos d’Esquadrathat Juns negotiates with the Socialist Executive. A concentration at 1:00 p.m., given the outrage of the agents for the progress in the “independence delirium”, which from the union call “outrageous and surreal”, and “manifestly illegal”, since, they consider, the transfer violates The Constitution, the Foreigner Law, and the Common European Regulations, especially regarding security, foreigners and border control.

«European legislation is clearly clear and all member countries respect the common legal framework, being exclusive competencies of state bodies all those related to foreigners and the protection of common borders. This independence proposal to the Government is totally inadmissible, due to its legal incongruity, due to the risk that would mean to national security and the lack of lace in the common European space, ”the Supp has aimed through a statement.

Therefore, the objective of concentration is to point out the Round to the Constitution And reproach that “the safety of citizens cannot be negotiated in exchange for political support, you cannot play with our prestige and international presence, to perpetuate themselves in power,” they indicate from the agents union.

Precisely this Monday, the head of Interior in Catalonia, Núria Parlon, has claimed together to have “the same ambition” with which the Government demands competence in immigration, ports and airports as with the claim to incorporate 25,000 new mossos to the body. And it is that last December, after the Security Board held in the Catalan capital, the Generalitat refused to assume new powers until they have more effective in the ranks of the Autonomous Police.

The decision reaped the criticisms of the independentistas towards the executive of Salvador Illa who finally changed criteria to announce that the Catalan body would be responsible for citizen security in ports and airports, although without specifying when. The agent unions themselves denounced that not only were there effective, but also means to continue their deployment in the territory. Now Parlon has returned has stressed that “it is so important to assume the competences of immigration and control of ports and airports, such as having and negotiating these 25,000 mossos.”

In an interview in Ràdio 4, the Minister of Interior recalled that, in the case of the port and the airport, with the early retirements the body will be tension in such a way that it will be required “that it goes ahead of what can go” and that they should sacrifice agents for citizen security to cover the new functions. Of course, he has noted that as of September, Catalonia can “be in conditions” of assuming control of this security, since there will be more staff with the incorporation of new promotions.

Regarding the border control with the transfer of immigration to the Generalitat, Parlon has rejected it: “By the line in which the negotiations go, it will be in any case shared, but it is an important volume of troops.”