The data on citizen security based on the size of the Local Police staff in the municipalities of Cangas, Moaña and Marín, as the most populated localities in the Morrazo region, clearly shows the lack within the police station. canguesa According to objective data, without counting the positions of Chief Inspector, Moaña has 20 agentsbetween police officers and auxiliaries, which would correspond to one for every 966 inhabitants, in round numbers. Marín, for its part, has 23 workers in the Headquarters, which would mean one agent for every 1,059 residents, in addition to having a National Police station located in the heart of the urban area. For its part, and making a comparison, The team led by Alberto Agulla has 17 members, which corresponds to one police officer for every 1,558 inhabitants registered in the municipality. All without counting the increase in population during the summer, which triples in the months of July and August.
For practical purposes, These numbers have a direct impact on daily operations. While in Marín the number of agents on each shift is “similar”, regardless of whether it is day or night, in Moaña 365 days a year there are three agents who perform night service, one in charge of switchboard work. and two others on patrol patrolling the municipality. Cangas, for its part, has a single patrol car, two agents, and, therefore, a single vehicle in operation both in the afternoon and at night. There is no one in the office and the telephone from 3:00 p.m. until the next morning is diverted to the work cell phone carried by these active agents on shift.
It should also be noted, with regard to Cangas, that the town also has a nightlife area with significant activity and in which fights and altercations that require intervention are frequent. To which is added the Mayor’s order to act on traffic on the access roads to its 22 beachesspread over five parishes, and whose jurisdiction is not municipal and would correspond to the Civil Guard, with headquarters in Cangas but also with a notable lack of troops.
The payrolls
In monetary matters, taking into account the population, there is also a difference between some templates and others. Both Marín and Moaña are governed by the internal salary table of each council by level 20 of Category 1 with a base monthly salary of between 1,500 and 1,600 euros. In the case of Cangas, they are at level 16 and the payroll is practically similar, including night shifts.
A conflict that is not new within the Cangas City Council, keeps the government divided and generates internal conflict in the works council. The intention of the tripartite to equate the salary of the assistants to that of the municipal administrators, while ignoring the requests brought by the Local Police and that were included in an agreement reached with the previous local government.
The mayor: “We are overwhelmed”
Following the statements by the Councilor for Urban Planning and Environment, in the plenary session last Friday, ensuring that the signage of the parish of O Hío is correct and that, specifically, Preguntoiro street, in Viñó, is perfectly signposted both vertically and horizontally, government has been inundated with complaints from the neighbors themselves. The president of the association, Esperanza Veiga, wanted to demonstrate with photos the real state of the roads and the accumulation of vehicles this weekend and even yesterday, Monday. Report that she sent to the mayor, Araceli Gestido, via WhatApps. It is shown that Preguntoiro was never marked despite having been paved for months and that the pedestrian areas were full of vehicles parked under the prohibited sign. The councilor’s response was brief: “I’m going to Works and Services, but we are overwhelmed.”
Alternativa dos Veciños (AV) has also released a video recording these statements by the councilor in a plenary session.
