The PP and police unions such as SUP and Jupol have accused the Government of placing former socialist deputy Felipe Sicilia as a police officer in the Constitutional Court, a special police station in which agents have a salary supplement of around 400 euros per month.
Sources from the National Police indicate that this appointment has followed the regulatory channels and that Silicia will occupy a position of the same category.
The PP reprimands the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, for that decision. "After calling the TC magistrates 'coup plotters in toga', the Government places its former spokesperson as a police officer in the Constitutional Court. Sánchez always finds room for his friends, even if it represents a new insult for the judges," Gamarra denounced in the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The general secretary of Jupol, Aarón Rivero, also sees a case of "enchufismo", who defends that Sicilia, who won the position in 2006, should have returned to his destination, the first one he had, as national police in the local police station of Morón de la Frontera (Seville), but he has not done so, but has obtained a "hand-picked place" in the Constitutional Court.
Jupol is studying legal measures to prevent "perpetuation of plugging in the National Police" and they compare the Plaza de Sicilia with the appointment of four commissioners for the embassies of Bogotá, Havana, Mexico City and Moscow, which was annulled by the National Court due to the lack of motivation in the appointment.
The SUP censures this arbitrary designation of Sicily as a destination considered "attractive" for many troops due to the salary supplement it entails.
Union sources remind EFE that they have been demanding for years that the positions of the special commissioners that have this plus, such as those in the Congress, Senate or Constitutional Court, should be publicly offered in an internal competition. Furthermore, the bonus also increases if these police officers are escorts of the president of the Constitutional Court.
Jupol also points out the inequality that comes with having achieved the position when he has barely worked as an agent while other police officers have been making merit for years.
Sicilia (1979) was spokesperson for the PSOE for less than a year, between 2021 and 2022, a socialist deputy in Congress since 2011 and in the last legislature he was in charge of the Interior, Justice and Defense. A police officer by profession and a graduate in Political Science and Sociology, before arriving at the Lower House he was also a deputy in the Parliament of Andalusia (2009-2011).
