Barcelona is back at the centre of a debate over police equipment, after the PP renewed its call for Guàrdia Urbana officers to be equipped with Tasers.
Daniel Sirera, the PP president in Barcelona City Council, said the city faces an “increasingly violent and dangerous” situation. He made the remarks on Friday in La Marina del Port, during an event to launch the party’s Calles Seguras campaign.
According to a party statement, Barcelona needs a police force that is “prepared, protected, and equipped”. The PP says less-lethal weapons would help officers do their work safely and maintain order in the city.
Sirera also criticised Mayor Jaume Collboni, saying he was “wasting the Generalitat's budget negotiations to demand the 3,000 Mossos that Barcelona needs”. He claimed that 38 homicides have been recorded during Collboni’s three years in office.
The issue sits within wider public safety discussions in Catalonia’s capital, where policing levels and equipment remain a recurring political fault line. For more local coverage, see our news page.
The PP’s Calles Seguras campaign is intended to promote its security proposals across Barcelona’s neighbourhoods. The party says those proposals include more police presence and better tools for officers.