Siulp Pisa: “safety is a priority on the political agenda
Vito Giangreco, provincial secretary of the SIULP police union, invites political forces to bring the issue of security back to the center of the agenda
As in any electoral campaign, security is used to capture the consent of citizens that it is an essential precondition for the peaceful and orderly economic, cultural and political development of cities as well as one of the priorities and needs of everyone. Today more than ever, security should be considered as an investment, above all because after the lockdown that “apparent tranquility” disappeared, proposing a new escalation of some criminal events that could further social tensions ending up inevitably unloading on the security system and therefore on women and the men who leave him.
This is why it still seems inexplicable to understand the generic statements that we are hearing in the expected electoral campaign that even today, almost a year later and without omitting the priority emergencies that we must face at a regulatory, salary, housing and safety level in the workplace beyond that social security, the policemen have not yet been paid the increases envisaged by the last contract signed in December 2021 and already expired on January 1, 202.
SIULP-PISA, equidistant from partisan interests, addressing the candidates and candidates for Parliament on the electoral lists of the Province of Pisa and the entire Region, hopes for the right economic, structural, regulatory and legislative attention to the category that for 365 Days a year, as servants of the state and not of the politician on duty, he guarantees the safety of all.
“I believe it is necessary that politics must stop presenting itself to the people of divisions with propaganda and dream solutions that will be forgotten the same evening of the electoral results and on the other hand I believe that it must stimulate and implement solutions that allow the various police forces in the field, with the control safeguards, to work in the right conditions and in safe conditions “.
“Only in this way – continues the Provincial Secretary of SIULP-PISA – can the guardians of law and order be they state and local, respecting their own competences and without trespassing, avoiding banal slogans and exploitation, engaging in the best possible way, will they be able to fight through urban decay through works of redevelopment of the areas, creating those local networks for social improvement and to reduce the fragility of those who are most exposed to the communities, culturally and economically, avoiding ghettoized spaces where the only aspect that emerges is diversity. Furthermore, through fair and congruous for the strengthening of the staffing of the state police forces, means and legislative acts aimed at the certainty of the sentence, it will be possible to guarantee a predictive control of the territory, in a more organic way and in step with the times “.
It is only by putting aside propaganda that it is considered possible to create the necessary conditions for an articulated and functioning system of security policies that takes into account both the immigration phenomenon, not as an emergency criticality but as an aspect to be managed with medium and long-term policies, both of the added value of the suburbs which in recent times from the different political colors would seem to have been forgotten and from which the right redemption useful for social well-being could be reborn, favoring the safety of all and the work of law enforcement officers.
The appeal of SIULP-PISA, to the candidates and candidates of the Province of Pisa and the Region of Tuscany to the new Parliament, is that of a thematic table where the issues of security can be addressed, declining them not through the feeling of fear, as a machine of generation of consensus and which does not solve the problems, but through a serious and programmatic analysis that also takes into account the prison, perhaps establishing a Permanent Observatory on Security with the participation of representatives of the Police Forces including the Penitentiary, who sometimes express competences greater than many figures who alternate numerous committees for order and security and from which in some circumstances solutions emerge that do not take into account the difficulties that the police are experiencing every day and that we remember being workers, fathers and mothers of families , citizens who pay taxes and who will also vote in this electoral mandate.
Pisa, 11 September 2022 The Provincial Secretary General SIULP-PISA ViTO GIAGRECO