The local police in Vera have decided in a meeting called by the CSI-CSIF (Central Sindical independiente y de funcionarios - a national union representing public employees) to take industrial action to protest against the treatment of two of their colleagues. The two police officers in question have been suspended from their duties without pay for taking leave due to the illness which the council has claimed they have feigned. According to the police officers' union the town council is prepared to take similar measures against more than half of the municipality's officers for abandoning their duties.
The action to be taken by the police includes; weekly authorised demonstrations outside the town hall, refusing to work overtime during the town fair due to take place in two weeks time, not imposing traffic fines until given the adequate means to do so, not carrying out any individual patrols, not patrolling in cars which are not police cars, not using personal mobile phones as a substitute for the police's own communications system which was acquired by the town council and has not been working for a month and has not been repaired ( the communications system cost the council 300,000 euros).
Negotiations have been going on between the police and the council recently over the conditions of the police force's work contracts and the union believes the council's actions have been taken to pressure the police officers into signing this contract.
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