The Calp is currently registering a total of 67 active cases of gender-based violence. This number was announced in the Coordination Commission of Gender Violence, which met per Skype this morning.
The meeting was attended by the mayor of Calp, Ana Sala, and representatives of the Unit against Violence against Women of the government sub-delegation, the Dénia Gender Violence Office, the Guardia Civil, the local police, the Dénia Women's Centre, the Office of Attention to Victims and the Equality Department of the Calp City Council.
This is "a very high number" for a municipality like Calp, with 23,000 registered inhabitants, and exceeds the rate of the Valencian Community and Spain, according to the head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the government sub-delegation, Modes Salazar.
It was also announced in the meeting that the Equality Unit of Calp City Council made 127 interventions in the last semester of 2020. Most of the cases attended to are from the Calp Municipal Police Gender Violence Unit. These are women who have filed a complaint and have a protection order in force and request information about resources and services, financial assistance, housing alternatives, shelters, as well as psychological support for them and their children and vocational counselling and job search.
In recent months it has been noted that younger women are coming, between 16 and 30 years of age, some of them high school students, others with children in their care and where the father is the aggressor.
The meeting was also held to account for the actions that have been carried out for the prevention of this scourge in the municipality as various awareness campaigns aimed at both high school students and citizens in general, the creation of a regional network for equality in the Marina Alta, one of whose objectives is to collect data for the prevention of gender violence among adolescents in the region, or the launch of a volunteer network for participatory actions against gender violence at the municipal level.
In addition, Mayor Ana Sala has renewed the cooperation agreement with the Ministry of the Interior so that the local police of Calp can continue to have access to the comprehensive monitoring system for cases of gender-based violence, in which all reported active cases and the level of risk of each of them are recorded. A program that allows the local police to monitor these cases in coordination with the Guardia Civil.