Sappe: “Enough! Zero tolerance and immediate appointment of a commanding officer”
“A very serious episode of violence occurred in the prison of S. Maria Capua Vetere against an inspector of the Penitentiary Police, who had his nasal septum fractured by a detainee with a headbutt in the Tamigi Department.
Enough! It is time for zero tolerance and for the appointed police officer to take office in S. Maria Capua Vetere.
The staff of the Penitentiary Police is increasingly tired of the continuous attacks and violence suffered and hopes for a prompt intervention by the Administration at the national level.” This is stated by Vicenzo Berrini, provincial secretary of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police, after the serious episode that occurred today in the penitentiary: “There are no words left to describe the serious working conditions in which the Penitentiary Police find themselves,” denounces Tiziana Guacci, regional secretary for Campania of the SAPPE.
“The daily cries for help from the SAPPE continue to go unheard by the competent institutional authorities: only proclamations and beautiful words, but nothing concrete. These are announced violence, committed in a facility where there is a lack of staff, individual defense tools such as tasers, and a security regime proportional to the type of highly dangerous detainees.”
Capece, general secretary of the first Union of Penitentiary Police, which expresses “solidarity and support from the SAPPE” to the injured inspector in the Sammaritan prison, highlights how the inmates’ intolerance and the serious episode caused by one of them are “symptomatic of the fact that tensions and critical issues in the Italian penal execution system are constant. And the situation has become alarming for the Penitentiary Police, who pay heavily in terms of stress and operational capacity for these serious and continuous critical episodes.
Firm responses are needed from the DAP, including allocating disused prisons such as Asinara and Pianosa to contain those inmates who become involved in serious critical events during their detention. What happened in the penitentiary of S. Maria Capua Vetere once again demonstrates the ungovernability of regional prisons and the disregard and arrogance of a violent part of the detainee population who continue to commit crimes, disrupt order and security, evidently certain of impunity. It is time for the appointed commanding officer to take office in S. Maria Capua Vetere: it is no longer a time for delays and uncertainties!”
