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- The Commissioner of the Courts admits to processing and initiates the proceedings after the complaint of Now Murcia before the possible non-compliance of numerous regional and state legislation in matters of volunteering
The Ombudsman has opened an investigation after the complaint made by Now Murcia about the lack of means that suffer the dozens of volunteers and volunteers of the Civil Protection Association of the City of Murcia.
The municipal group filed a complaint with the Commissioner of the Cortes a few weeks ago "because of the serious situation suffered by the Volunteers of the Association, due to the lack of means, facilities and modern vehicles to carry out their important work in the municipality according to the Legislation in force and in safe conditions ".
The Ombudsman now initiates, after the complaint of the municipal group, the relevant investigations to review everything concerning the operation of Civil Protection in the municipality of Murcia and the lack of means, which is the responsibility of the City Council and the Department of Security and Protection Citizen, to whose front is the mayor Lola Sánchez.
Now Murcia made known to this Commissioner of the Cortes General "the possible serious irregularities detected", as well as the breach of the motion of Now Murcia unanimously approved in the Plenum of the Consistory for the improvement of the means of the Volunteer Group of Volunteers Civil Protection of the Town Hall.
"Among other issues," Councilor Alicia Morales recalls, "it was demanded that the expansion of municipal facilities belonging to Civil Protection be carried out, a large part of which is currently occupied by the contracting of the Traffic service, for Reasons that Lola Sánchez has not been able to clarify convincingly ".
Now Murcia indicated to the Ombudsman that the current situation of the Group of Volunteers, with chapels for more than ten years, obsolete vehicles most without air conditioning or even airbag, as well as a lack of "alarming" materials, , Does not conform to the Voluntary Act of the Region of Murcia nor to the state regulations, "much less to the municipal regulation of the Group itself, which states that 'the Municipal Corporation shall arbitrate the necessary means to ensure that the Association has Material that can guarantee the intervention and the best possible operation in the event of any emergency. "
Morales points out that "Murcia now has been monitoring exhaustively all that refers to the Municipal Civil Protection Service and its Volunteer Group since the beginning of the legislature," and that "the situation in the Association is already limit, in the face of serious So much so that now the Ombudsman sees sufficient evidence to open an investigation, and has asked the City of Murcia and the Department of Traffic, Safety and Public Protection all documentation and information about it.
The spokesperson for the municipal training has stressed that "from Now Murcia we will continue to monitor, and now with the Ombudsman, that the municipal Volunteer Association enjoy the best conditions, means and materials, as its volunteers and volunteers perform a Extraordinary volunteer work, so they do not deserve the City Council to abandon them to their fate without the necessary means and in precarious conditions. "
"We hope that the Ombudsman will get to the bottom of the matter," says Morales, "and if necessary, debug the appropriate responsibilities, all to ensure good compliance with the law, welfare of volunteers and volunteers Protection Civil of our City Council and that citizens receive the most effective service ".
NOW MURCIA
Source: Ahora Murcia
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