Overview

• On Oct. 2, Jupol called for an urgent increase of National Police in Cáceres, citing a recent surge in violence that included two deaths and several stabbing injuries last week.
• The union argues Cáceres lacks sufficient coverage due to its vast territory, low police presence per square kilometer, and obligations such as servicing the provincial prison with inadequate personnel.
• A day earlier in Valencia, Jupol accused Interior and the national police leadership of abandonment and pressed to revise, update, and expand the workforce to ease what it calls unbearable workloads and curtailed leave.
• Jupol also demands the return of productivity pay it says was unjustifiably deducted after the Oct. 29 DANA, alleging opaque decision-making and lacking official explanations.
• The union criticizes post-DANA medal decisions and the continued use of a 1964 decorations law, and it points to gaps in training, the absence of a second shooting range at Zapadores, frozen per diems, and tight station budgets.