“Proud of the courage with which the country addresses and combats violence against women, but not satisfied.” The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, presented this Wednesday the new method of police work and monitoring of cases of gender violence that seeks to update and perfect the current one, which began operating 17 years ago. And although they represent the lowest number on record, the minister has stressed that there are “47 defeats for democracy”, to which he has added nine more defeats, those of the minors murdered last year. Accompanied by the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, he has broken down the innovations brought by the new model of police response to gender violence, among them that the “unappreciated” risk category of victims is eliminated, because by the mere The fact of reporting, it must already be considered that there is a danger; New databases are connected for immediate access, and case monitoring systems are established so that they do not automatically become inactive.
The changes seek to implement a technological leap that allows improving the response and is combined with new police assessment protocols, which take into account emerging phenomena such as cyber violence or cases of special complexity, because the aggressor is persistent, the victim is resistant to reporting or there are minors involved.
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has stressed that the VioGén system saves lives every day, but has recalled that each of the victims challenges them. “It’s about continuing to move forward,” he stressed. Redondo has highlighted that the new system attempts to advance the human factor and also aims to improve situations that have been seen in the crisis cabinets that have been convened with increases in victims or with especially sensitive cases, such as failures in coordination and collaboration. “This control and collaboration is influenced,” he added. The new model is supported by the implementation of the VioGén 2 System, a computer platform that replaces the one used since 2007, and the application of Protocol 2025, which brings together and updates five instructions from the Secretary of State for Security on how to manage the cases of gender violence that have been published since 2018.
Interior has detected in the VioGén System, until December 2024, 101,093 active cases of gender violence, according to the latest statistical data from the department headed by Marlaska and collected by Europa Press. In these data, there are a total of 101,093 active cases of gender violence, of which 16 are at extreme risk, 936 at high risk, 13,947 at medium, 43,948 at low risk, and 42,246 at low risk.
They also reveal that there are 2,144 cases with minors at risk of being attacked by their mother’s abuser, of which five are at extreme risk, 166 at high risk and 1,973 at medium. By communities, the highest number of active cases of gender violence is in Andalusia, with 26,442; The Valencian Community follows, with 16,736; the Community of Madrid, with 12,561; Canary Islands, with 6,714; Galicia, with 5,789; Murcia, with 5,695; Castilla-La Mancha, with 5,624; Castilla y León, with 4,971; Balearic Islands, with 4,380; Extremadura, with 2,685; Aragon, with 2,638; Asturias, with 2,100; Navarra, with 1,912; Cantabria, with 1,439; La Rioja, with 886; Ceuta, with 270; and Melilla, with 251.
Telephone 016 assists victims of sexist violence, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but the call must be deleted from the device. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp at the number 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police telephone numbers (091) and the Civil Guard (062). And if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
