Society
Environment
Politics
Economy
Culture
Basque language
Feminism
Education
International
Opinion
monday 22 july 2024
Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. 
The Government Security Department will have a budget of EUR 790 million in 2024, 5.9% more than the previous one.
- The Basque Government’s security budget has increased by 13.7% over the past three years. The increase for next year will be EUR 44 million.
Argazkia: Crónica Vasca.
Zarata mediatikoz beteriko garai nahasiotan, merkatu logiketatik urrun eta irakurleengandik gertu dagoen kazetaritza beharrezkoa dela uste baduzu, ARGIA bultzatzera animatu nahi zaitugu. Geroz eta gehiago gara, jarrai dezagun txikitik eragiten.
Last November 6, the budget of the Department of Security of the Basque Country was presented to the Basque Parliament for the year 2024. According to Advisor Josu Erkoreka (PNV), next year, EUR 790,157,000 will go to the Department of Security, 5.9% more than this year.
In absolute terms, the Department will increase by EUR 43,829,000. Taking into account developments in recent years and including 2024 data, since 2021 the general budget of the Department of Security has increased by 13.7%, 4.8% in 2022 and 3% in 2023.
Details are also given of the purpose of this budgetary increase, with the most significant expenditure being: EUR 24.1 million to finance wage costs. 22.5 million will be allocated to the purchase of hybrid vehicles for the police and the "energy efficiency" of the Ertzaintza buildings. The most important expenditure, EUR 41.4 million, will be allocated to the "digital transformation" of the Ertzaintza and emergency services 112, with the aim of "optimising the management of technological infrastructures and services".
Another EUR 2 million will be allocated to the newly created Euskadi Cybersecurity Agency, in collaboration with the Ertzaintza, in order to follow the "cybercrimes". In addition, they will allocate EUR 11 million to the Basque Parliament elections in 2024. As for the Arkaute Academy, next year’s budget will be EUR 19,835,000.
Most read
Using Matomo
#1
dantzan.eus
|
Oier Araolaza
#2
Zigor Olabarria Oleaga
#3
Mikel Garcia Idiakez
#6
Jon Hidalgo Gereñu
You are interested in the channel: Ertzaintza
2024-06-26
ARGIA
A video shows that an ertzaina kicked the Realism fan, presumably seriously injured with a foam shell.
In one of the videos of the Ertzaintza investigation, according to News de Gipuzkoa, you can see how a police officer kicked the Real fan. The 44-year-old woman was seriously injured in the incidents recorded in the Donostia-San Sebastian football match between the Real Sociedad... [+]
2024-05-30
Lander Arbelaitz Mitxelena
Ernai denounces the "greatest aggression suffered so far", after requesting EUR 300,000 fines from the government
The youth organisation has accused the government of trying to "economically stifle Ernai and destroy him politically" at the massive Thursday morning appearance in Bilbao. They report that the Government has sent fines of EUR 1,500 to EUR 2,500 to each of the 133 members... [+]
2024-05-14
Gorka Peñagarikano Goikoetxea
The ertzaina who attacked a man in Irun is currently impeached for investigating the facts
The agent of the Ertzaintza who beat the man is dismissed with precautionary measures and the Internal Affairs Unit of the Ertzaintza investigates the facts. The attitude of the police officers present at that time is also being studied.
2024-05-10
Lander Arbelaitz Mitxelena
The Ertzaintza attack on a citizen in Irun angry cause
A video posted on Friday morning on social media shows how a person discusses with a group of cops and ertzainas. At one point, one of the Ertzaines throws him to the ground with a heavy blow and then left on the ground. The video was recorded in the San Miguel de Irún... [+]
2024-04-15
Aiaraldea
The Ertzaintza stops two people and identifies 22 in Orduña
Two detainees are charged with an attack on authority. The Ertzaintza states that two police officers were injured during the Sunday operation.
2024-04-05
Gedar
The use of taser pistols from the Ertzaintza increases from two to twelve in four years
Between 2018 and 2022, the Ertzaintza used this weapon at least 32 times. In 2017 the government allocated EUR 50,687 for the purchase of taser guns. In recent months dozens of people have been injured by the Ertzainas in eleven police burdens.
2024-04-02
Hala Bedi
GKS denounces police persecution and deplores the silence of political parties
The Young Socialist Coordinator has appeared in Vitoria to denounce the police violence suffered by several young people on Saturday night. In fact, the Ertzaintza hit people who turned to show support for the young people who entered an empty house. Four people were... [+]
2024-03-22
Zigor Olabarria Oleaga
Eneko Valdés and Juan Calvo, who died under the surveillance of the Ertzaintza: 30 years difference, excess coincidence
On 20 August 1993, Juan Calvo died at the police station of the Ertzaintza in Arkaute, in a state of turmoil. In July 2023, ARGIA published new information and data on the death that evidenced the ill-treatment received by Calvo, the lies and the impunity of the police. We have... [+]
2024-03-20
Jon Hidalgo Gereñu
Public safety has been left to private companies"
In his new book, Ahoztar Zelaieta, research journalist, criminologist and ARGIA collaborator, analyzes the technological evolution of the Ertzaintza in the last decade. He has investigated the security industry and made public its relationship with the Ertzaintza, which is... [+]
2024-03-20
ARGIA
A man with a psychotic outbreak dies after a violent Ertzaintza intervention
A 36-year-old man, in the middle of a psychotic drug demonstration, requested the assistance of the police in Astigarraga on 2 February. Instead of helping, her family reports that the Ertzaintza violently treated the man and that he was dead when he entered the ambulance.
2024-03-18
Zigor Olabarria Oleaga
Has Ertzaintza used rubber balls in Vitoria for the first time since the death of Cabacas?
Several agents and people reported on social networks, accompanied by photographs, that the Ertzaintza used rubber balls in the aggression against the demonstration of March 3 of Vitoria. The complaint did not have much impact, but if it were true we would be faced with a... [+]
2024-03-15
Gedar
On Saturday, EHKS will denounce in Donostia the "violence and repression of states"
Within the political day of the whole day, at 19:30 hours a demonstration will take place from Plaza Gipuzkoa. They will be mobilised against "police persecution and repression in recent weeks".
2024-03-14
Irutxuloko Hitza
Royal Society wounded by the Ertzaintza
The woman was injured by a punch in the police charge before the match against the PSG.
2024-03-13
Olaia L. Garaialde
The Ertzaintza investigates for being alleged filter photos of detainees at Bilbao parties
Last summer, the photographs and names of the 79 people detained during the big week of Bilbao were published. The photos showed the police logo.
Eguneraketa berriak daude