The mayor of Torrevieja, Pedro Angel Hernandez Mateo, has accused the government of “discriminate” in this city for “not to build the National Police Station” and “state of neglect” in which, in its view, are the dependencies for the issuance of the passport and NIE.

Mateo Hernandez made these considerations at the meeting of the Local Security Board, as reported by local sources.

The popular mayor stated intention of the City Council to continue to “insist the Ministry of the Interior” in his request to build “this important and necessary infrastructure for public safety.”

In his view, the socialist government “discriminate” to the city of Torrevieja with “the neglect of duties, upon signing an agreement with the municipality for the construction of the Police Station.”

Mateo Hernandez has said that the Ministry of Interior decided to “unilaterally in March of 2009 does not run the police station in Torrevieja for economic reasons, after the City Council had given the land and developed the project.”

The councilman has complained that, however, have since been built and put into operation until “twelve stations in other cities, almost all ruled by socialist mayors, such as Ibiza, Logrono, Miranda del Ebro, Palma de Mallorca, Puertollano, Almendralejo Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

It has also transferred his discomfort with “the state of neglect” that have, in their opinion, the dependencies for the issuance of the passport and NIE’s National Police Force in Torrevieja.

Therefore, the Ministry has required that “at least have the decency” to install “a poster from the National Police in the facade of those units (free of charge transferred by the city of Torrevieja) for citizens to know the place found. ”

Mateo Hernandez has assured not to understand that a city like Torrevieja, with “more than 100,000 registered inhabitants and an average population exceeding 200,000, does not have a National Police Station.”

“And not even” has continued, with some decent units for processing of DNI, NIE and passport, giving the fact that you can only meet 42 people a day, due to the insufficient number of staff serving those units ” .

For the mayor, “is incredible,” treatment “discriminatory” by the Government to Torrevieja.

In turn, Assistant Secretary of the Regional and Local Policy CPAP, César Augusto Asencio, today criticized what they considered “an arbitrariness with which the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero splits the money of the Spanish people, and has accused of “playing with the safety of citizens.”

In a statement, Asencio has alleged that the central executive has “partisan amnesia” because, “after saying he had no money to build the station in Torrevieja, has invested more than eighty million in twelve new other autonomies.”

“Torts in security are not new,” the popular leader, who said that “Valencia has a staff ratio of less than the national average.”