Members of Uruguay’s Alliance of Police Unions (USIP) gathered on Thursday in front of the Legislative Palace, demanding a decent salary that supports their performance in public security.
“Rights are also conquered in the streets, as all workers do,” a manifesto said, and participants demonstrated without uniforms and weapons.
The police unions initially demanded a 22-percent salary increase to recover from the drop in salary in recent years.
They said that it would be increased by 8.0 percent plus the adjustment that corresponds to the consumer price index (CPI) this year, which in 2023 would be 6.0, plus the adjustment associated with the CPI; and that in 2024, the last year of this administration, the increase was 8.0 plus the CPI.
The USIP met with Luis Alberto Heber, Minister of the Interior, with the aim of discussing this salary increase soon.
The unions of police officers from the departments of Montevideo, Maldonado, Canelones, Florida Montevideo, Maldonado, and other related unions in the Ministry of the Interior are part of this group.
During the week, the secretary of organization in the department of the capital, Ricardo Gonzalez, said that “this government has said that it supports the Police, but if we do not see this in salaries, morale is not enough.”
Rios said that “we are experiencing situations of job persecution, transfers that imply salary reductions and a director whose practices seem from the time of the dictatorship” and who is not prepared for the position.
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