Overview

• Prosecutors reported in their 2024 annual memo that the Cometa control center could not provide monitoring data from before March 20, 2024, which they said led to numerous provisional dismissals and acquittals.
• The Fiscalía later stressed the issues were punctual, said victims were protected, and noted many cases were reopened once data were recovered.
• Equality Minister Ana Redondo maintains the devices worked at all times, says the problems were resolved by late 2024 with no incidents recorded in 2025, and estimates affected cases at under 1%.
• Magistrates of courts that handle gender violence cases say they warned for months about repeated failures and reduced their use of the bracelets, with some opting for more restrictive measures instead.
• The dispute follows a 2023 tender that moved the service to a Vodafone–Securitas joint venture and to purchased devices, which critics allege are lower quality, while official figures put coverage at about 8,600 people with 4,515 devices active in July 2025.