The Ministry of the Interior has launched a technical table for the application of the coefficients reducing the retirement age to members of the State Security Forces, without distinction of contribution regime. Thus, negotiations have been activated to advance the retirement age for agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard, after years of administrative blockade.
The constituent meeting of the table was held this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, chaired by the Secretary of State for Security, Aina Calvo, and with the participation of representatives of the police unions and associations of civil guards with representation in the respective councils of the National Police and the Civil Guard.
As reported by Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s portfolio, it has agreed on “the methodology of the work to be carried out to achieve the desired objective, as well as the calendar of meetings to be held in the coming months.”
One of the participating unions, Jupol, has indicated this same day that they are going to fight “so that all colleagues, without exception, have the same conditions of access to retirement and the same pension”, explicitly rejecting any formula that leaves out agents assigned to the Passive Classes regime or the Civil Guard.
Thanks to these negotiations, union organizations seek the application of reducing coefficients that allow the retirement age to be advanced under the same conditions as regional and local police officers. A historical discrimination for which, they have warned, they do not rule out new mobilizations.
Participating unions
In the case of the National Police, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior, the unions present at the working group meeting were the Professional Police Union (SPP), the Unified Police Union (SUP), the Federal Police Union (UFP), Equiparación Now (EYA) and Police Justice (JUPOL). The Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) has declined the invitation.
On the part of the Civil Guard, the participating associations have been the Professional Association of Civil Guard Justice (JUCIL), the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC), Independents of the Civil Guard (IGC), the Professional Association of Corporals of the Civil Guard (APC-GC), the Union of Officers of the Professional Civil Guard (UO), the Association of the Scale of Non-Commissioned Officers of the Professional Civil Guard (ASES-GC) and the Spanish Association of Civil Guards (AEGC).