As established by the State Pact on Gender Violence, the area of Equality and Diversity of the Mijas City Council continues to take steps to help these victims and promote training initiatives that guarantee the best assistance response. This Monday, it was time to address police action in this area, in domestic and sexual violence. The inspector of the National Police and criminologist Álvaro Botias Benedit has been in charge of teaching this course at the Local Police Headquarters in Mijas (Las Lagunas).
“We are going to study what knowledge and tools are needed by the agents to act, especially empathy or active listening so that the victims feel they can open up to them; we will see the decalogue of good practices, which I have drawn up throughout my experience, so that they are made more aware that these types of victims are special and must be treated with great delicacy and tact", said Botias, who also made a brief summary of prior police investigations into crimes against sexual freedom or violations. “In terms of sexual violence, every year, more than 90% of the victims are women and, this last year, 98% of the perpetrators were men. As we can see, the gender factor is key”. In sexist violence, when asked about the false reports of this crime, Botias is clear: “false reports every year I think are 0.0001% according to the State Attorney General's Office; I do not dare to mention larger figures than these, especially from my experience, six years at the head of the UFAM (Family and Women's Unit), where the vast majority of the women with whom I have dealt are victims of genre violence".
Multidisciplinary care for victims
The Mijas Women's Centre coordinates with the Local Police, the Civil Guard and the Health Centre to care for the victims. Together, they have managed to shorten reaction times, "achieving an immediate response and multidisciplinary attention, both psychological, legal or economic", according to the councillor for Equality and Diversity Natalia Martínez (PSOE), who attended the course. The councillor stated that “in Mijas, we have 256 victims, whose aggressors have a restraining order in force, and as we also belong to the Viogen group, our Local Police monitors more than 50 victims, therefore, from the Women's Centre We understand that it is very important to provide the agents with all this knowledge”.
Conclusions have also been drawn about the impact of confinement during the pandemic, where the cases of violent deaths were reduced. On the other hand, the end of the state of alarm led these cases to exponentially increase, registering eleven murders in a month and a half, which determined, according to Botias, that control and domination is the objective of the abuser.
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