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Forces and Security, awarded by the Centre of Domestic Violence and Gender
The Centre of Domestic Violence and Gender General Council of Judicial Power has awarded in its sixth edition, all the Security Forces of Spanish (Guardia Civil National Police, Ertzaintza, Autonomous Police, Provincial Police Navarre and local police) for the work being developed in dealing with gender violence.
A proposal by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), the Centre has decided that, on behalf of the Spanish Local Police, the prize is picked up by José Francisco Cano de la Vega, Chief of Local Police and Chairman Fuenlabrada National Union of Chiefs and Local Police Officers (Unijepol), coinciding in him as head of a highly committed local police in dealing with domestic violence with their representative associations.
The award ceremony took place in the Hall of the General Council of the Judiciary and the same was attended by the Ministers of Justice, Equality and Interior, plus the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, the President of the Centre of Domestic Violence CGPJ Gender and the President of the General Bar Council, the Secretary of State for Security, the Director General of Police and Civil Guard, among other officials.
In his speech, Cano thanked on behalf of all local police this distinction and made a special mention for those who started the way of attention to gender-based violence, such as Salamanca and Madrid, which developed the protocols priumeros policing and launched the first devices for defensive protection to victims, as San Fernando de Henares, Fuenlabrada and Vitoria-Gasteiz, and for those others, as Algete, Alcobendas, Alcorcón, Denia, Elche, Granada, Gijón, Logroño, Sevilla, Granada Rivas Vaciamadrid, Valencia, Villanueva of Camus and many others, small and large municipalities, who have spent years developing a commendable job to address effectively cases of domestic violence.
