The president of the Junts municipal group in the Barcelona City Council, Jordi Martí, has demanded explanations from the government of Mayor Jaume Collboni for the “very serious and unacceptable” leak of data of 568 agents of the Guardia Urbana on the internet. Municipal sources have responded that this is not a leak, but that “this incident derives from the publication of data related to selective processes” of the municipal police.
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“This is not a minor error: it is a first-order security failure that puts at risk the physical integrity of the agents and their families,” Junts said in a statement this Thursday after union criticisms reported by Metropoli about the ease of finding on the internet by entering a TIP number (professional identity card) the name and surname of agents, their workplace, and schedules or shifts.
The leader of Junts has demanded the urgent appearance of Collboni and his deputy mayor of Security, Albert Batlle, to whom he has sent a battery of 27 questions on the matter.
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The city council has assured it “will immediately take down all detected information containing the published data” and will initiate an active and exhaustive search for other documents in the same situation.” The same sources have pointed out that the Municipal Management has shared its intentions with the police unions. Looking ahead, it commits to publishing only the essential data (the TIP) of participants in the internal selective processes of the Guardia Urbana.
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