The police union (SUP) has warned that the Motril police station is falling down around the staff’s ears.

To drive the point home the spokesperson for the union observed dryly that soon the staff would have to turn up for work wearing construction hardhats.

The SUP denounces that the offices do not have the minimum safety and hygiene standards necessary for civilians visiting the building, as well as the people who work there.

High winds, for example, caused parts of the facade to fall off, which has lead to access being restricted around the outside of the building, which is now cordoned off, ironically, with police crime-scene tape.

And it’s not much better inside because workers have to make their way around building joists that are holding up the windows in places, hence the “hardhat” remark.

“Despite the amount of times that we have reported these deficiencies in the Motril Police Station to our area superiors, nobody has done anything about it,” added the SUP spokesperson.

The parting shot was to ask who was responsible for such a “botch job” when the building was erected seven years ago and what criminal, administrative and above all political retribution would be demanded, as the station was built with Motril taxpayers’ money.

(News: Motril, Cost Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)