The Colonia Police Chief, Jhonny Diego, in the last edition of EL ECO stated that he has “100 fewer police officers due to “medical licenses.” For its part, the police union blames the Police Headquarters for not giving the union the opportunity to work together in order to find solutions.
Specifically, Diego expressed “we have 100 police officers with medical leave, they have grabbed the medical license to not go to work and there are the really sick who do not pass 20 or 30”. The president of the Association of Police Officers of Colonia (Afupolco), Carlos Michelena, regarding the Police Chief’s statement, said that “many of the police officers are really sick. There may be 5% who take medical care without being sick, but there are other reasons as well, for example, sometimes they are transferred to another Sectional where they are financially harmed, they don’t have the right bus to get in and out of shift, and they can’t do 222 of according to the turn that they mark in the Sectional”.
According to the president of the union that “the officials who really have some pathology, when in 2008 the law of the Police Fund was reformed, the police health said that these police officers had to be treated differently from that of Camoc, for example in this area, to try to reverse the pathology of the official and see the possibility of reinstating him to his functions, and in case he could not be assigned another task within the Sectional according to his illness. And later, with the budget law of this administration, the powers were expanded so that the chiefs of police and the national directors, if they understood that these officials could work according to their pathology, could request reinstatement from the ministry.”
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