The Interior
Ministry in 2017 will buy a total of 3,500 female reflective vests for the National Police and Civil Guard,
an acquisition that matches the demand in this regard came by agents of the
State Security Forces. The department now runs Juan Ignacio Zoido made the
acquisition in a contest that will draw to acquire 5,250 units this pledge
security, as published by the Servimedia agency.
The demand for
female vests for national police and Civil Guards has been raised repeatedly by
groups of agents such as the Unified Police Union (SUP) and the Unified
Association of Civil Guards (AUGC). This situation has led to a civil guard
Salamanca has declared this last November for insubordination after refusing
last August to get a male vest and insist on getting a female who had acquired
on their own.
At the same time,
according to data of the Interior, between 2012 and 2016 they were acquired
39,500 protective vests with reflective tape for State Security
Forces. Specifically, 32,681 were for the National Police and Civil Guard for 5226.
Also, within this overall figure 1,500 vests were purchased for the Traffic
Civil Guard, whose agents have been in the past shootings and assaults during
patrol work are included.
As published ABC,
the controversy surrounding the safety vests arose when it was found that those
of 'life' did not have the same effect on men and women. "They have to be
adjusted to the body" to be "real" effective and is
"impossible" that which suits a portly 1.90 can be useful to a small
woman, denounced the Unified Association of Civil Guards. "Nor is solved
with a smaller size,” he notes, because "curves" female make if these
safety
clothing are "straight" no "protected" and also
reduce the ability of movement for actions like "unsheathe the weapon or
access the shackles. " Hence, the claim that is in line with the
physiognomy of the agents.
