“As of 31 December 2023, the overall staffing shortages of the State Police amounted to 10,271 units, equal to 9% of the staffing required by law, resulting from the difference between an staffing of 109,408 units and an effective force of 99,137 units . These are official data from the Department of Public Safety, a situation which in our city sees growing staff shortage percentages in 2024 due to the lack of assignments of new agents and many retirees. Suffice it to say that with the next transfers scheduled for the summer, only ten police officers belonging to the role of agents and assistants will arrive here”. Thus, in a note, Pietro Ghigliazza, provincial secretary of the Silp CGIL of Savona.
“Our territory – explains the secretary of the Silp Cgil – has long suffered from significant organic deficiencies which do not only concern the Police Headquarters, but concern the specialties, all those security measures which guarantee the control of the territory and the prevention of crimes with a worrying number of colleagues who are approaching retirement which, for some time, has exceeded thirty units per year “The criticality of the staff shortage, which also concerns the other police forces – explains the trade unionist – is combined with high age! average, over 50 years of age, as well as problems related to structures and vehicles. To date: zero extraordinary hirings, zero investments, inadequate resources for the renewal of the contract – A renewal that workers in uniform have been waiting for for over 850 days! All this has repercussions on organizational well-being, with women and men forced to work in an increasingly degraded working climate that is less and less respectful of the dignity of the worker”.
“We appeal to the civil community, to local politics, to the Ligurian parliamentarians – concludes the head of the police union – to do their part at all levels to help represent the serious situation we find ourselves in. The upcoming elections represent fertile ground for propaganda slogans but with effects eliminated from the next day! The attempt to militarize security, to make it regress, distancing it from its civil and democratic function which represented a great achievement sanctioned by law 121/81 is worrying; the priority instrument of action, relegating repression to an extreme ratio. We will oppose this plan, which undermines the dignity of all of us, of all workers in uniform, which nullifies the sacrifices aimed at building a democratic police. recent past”.
