The Police Confederation sees "irresponsibility" in Zupiria's criticism of the National Police and demands that it rectify publicly
The statements made by the Security Adviser regarding the two arrests by the National Police in Bilbao give rise to the reaction of the police force, which states that it must not seek permission from the Basque Government to operate in this territory.
The Spanish Confederation of Police accuses the Security Adviser of the Basque Government ,Bingen Zupiria, of acting with "negligence, institutional frivolity and little concern for the real security of the citizens" by assuring that the National Police exceeded its duties by arresting in Bilbao two alleged aggressors of a Spanish 000 follower.
The union regretted that Zupiria believes that the problem is not "those who attacked a citizen in a group for carrying Spanish symbols", but that "they were arrested by the National Police themselves".
Furthermore, it has stressed that the National Police "has not invaded any foreign territory and has not requested permissionfrom the Basque Government "to receive a complaint, investigate a crime and bring to justice the alleged perpetrators.
For all these reasons, he has asked Zupiria to publicly rectify and stop "using citizen security as a tool of political struggle" .
PNV uncomfortable
The confederation has clarified that Spanish police officers "will not look the other way" when a victim comes to ask for help and "will not abandon an investigation because a PNV counselor finds it uncomfortable who makes the arrests."
It also states that "no agreement interpreted from the point of view of political expediency by a Security Board shall makethe agents of that Corps in the Basque Country merely issuers of identity documents ".
The union has also stressed that with these statements Zupiria\u00A0 "has not sought coordination, but a headline" and has specified that his criticism is not directed at the Ertzaintza and the Ertzainas, who "have enough to endure the contradictions of a political official".
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