Buenos Aires, Argentina.- The Police of the province of Buenos Aires, the richest and most populous district in the country, took to the streets again in demand of better wages this Wednesday after two days of events and marches in various cities, waiting for a proposal that improves their working conditions in times of high social concern for the growing wave of insecurity. The officers rejected the first offer from the Government of Buenoas Aires, by the Kirchnerist Axel Kicillof, and maintained the protest, to which they joined more members of the police force.
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UNSUCCESSFUL MEETINGOn the morning of today, a new meeting was initiated with the district’s Minister of Security, Sergio Berni, in search of a pact to end the measure of force, although representatives of the corps ensured, outraged, that he ended without any agreement. During the meeting, and amid the tension, a policeman, Oscar Pagano, climbed, crying, to the top of an energy tower located at the site of the main protest, in the municipality of La Matanza.
Authorities are trying to remove policeman Oscar Pagano from antenna heights today as he protests wage improvements threatening to throw himself. / Photograph: EFE.
After his classmates and family tried to convince him to come down, a friend also cop came up with a harness to help him descend.
Colleagues and friends of policeman Oscar Pagano clap today as authorities help him down. / Photograph: EFE.
Police are calling for a pay increase of between 56 and 64%, according to the ladders, in addition to other improvements and being granted the right to form a union, as security forces are excluded from this possibility.
today, they camp in front of a police detachment in protest at wage improvements. / Photograph: EFE.
The demonstrations take place from Monday in various points of the district, and the most numerous take place in the town of La Matanza, in front of the central command where the Minister of Security of Bonaerense has its offices, and in the city of La Plata, the provincial capital. The agents stated that wages starting at about 30,000 pesos ($380) “do not arrive at the end of the month” and must work “twelve hours a day” to add additional income, in which every overtime 40 pesos (0.50 cents) are paid, according to local media. MORE PROTECTION AGAINST COVID-19 Captain Mariano Diaz warned today that “highly dangerous criminals are with better weaponry than the police.”
They put us in jail for nothing. We want justice for the police personnel, the heroes are us, we put our chests on people we don’t even know,” the captain stressed.
The claims also focus on health measures that protect troops under the coronavirus pandemic because, they say, they must pay out of pockets for masks and gel alcohol to take care of themselves. The province’s security minister, Sergio Berni, reported that some 7,000 Bonaerenses policemen were infected with the new coronavirus (Covid-19), of which ten died. The troops also demand that protest participants are not sanctioned by the authorities and that their right to demonstrate is respected. The police of the province of Buenos Aires have about 90,000 troops and the troops of the local police of the municipalities of the district are the largest force in the country.
