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(secretary of Women Association Unified Civil Guard, AUGC) on actions in cases of domestic violence

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Pilar Villacorta is, since 2008, secretary of Women Association Unified Civil Guard (AUGC) and head of a Service patrols Protection of Nature in Cantabria, talked to her about the proceedings in cases of violence gender in rural areas.

PILAR VILLACORTA has two passions: motorcycles and Mt. Both converge in his work, so I like: every morning you step onto a bike and runs patrolling the Cantabrian mountains. Past 14 years in the Department of Nature Conservation (SEPRONA) of the Civil Guard, a body that women can access only from 1988.
A Pilar Villacorta care, and much, how does the work of gender violence from small headquarters located in rural areas, from which specific awareness campaigns would take place from equality bodies to what type of training should be the agents of the Guardia Civil, passing of course, for the care they receive and should receive the victims.
Women have accessed this body but still existing gender discrimination, tells Pilar Villacorta Kafkaesque situations (she says): "At the time that I had my first child I called the Directorate General to ask if I was going to continue. "
The Unified Association of Civil Guard (AUGC), created in 2008, currently has 30,000 people affiliated and in recent years are taking special note of the situations experienced by professionals from the Ministry of Women face allegations based on sex: "When the agents are mothers, the problems start, when to ask for another destination, to reduce working time. Many demonstrate their professional value but when mothers begin to disregard them. "

Another example, in the SEPRONA there are 3,000 men and 12 women: "There to analyze why there are only 12, what happened in the selection process? How was it?, Usually do not have data disaggregated by sex. " Or this: "Why in the Maritime Service of the Guardia Civil (SEMARNAT) almost no women and why only four women are in the same unit?".

What specifics are given when dealing with situations of abuse in rural areas?
In the case of violence gender have to see what the specific needs, "In the rural world still to do with chemicals in the countryside, because they are completely different from those that occur in cities. not what it means in itself violence, but it is not the same to live in a rural environment and address the gender violence to live in an urban environment. The urban environment gives you more discretion, however, the rural environment, input, paralyzed much to women. There are good seasons are very well made, there is information, the identity is stored in phone calls .... But in the rural world is still long way to go. I do not remember even one of these campaigns in which they appear, For example, agents of the Guardia Civil.

is not the same for a woman access to a police station in one city, even if only in his neighborhood, just have not seen in his life to go to a Civil Guard barracks. Usually before going to a military women have exhausted other resources, such as have been directed to social care council or even resort to agencies of the capital, most commonly advertised or made several phone calls to gather information. Why go to headquarters means that it is going to recognize, is known to be "daughter of", "woman."
So when they go to a barracks, it is usually because the violence is extreme, ie when there have been hits. The continuing violence and less severely than in the rural world has a fairly high rate, yet is not showing up in the barracks, which is emerging is really extreme violence. Come to blows, with brands ... and when they fear for their lives and have no choice but to go to a barracks.

What is a woman when you dial the 062 or when they go to the barracks?
Most of the staff in barracks, if not all, male and it is scarce. In some rural communities is very, very low. Because the Civil Guard, as has not made a restructuring of its own organization, maintains headquarters very little that can be occupied by five officers, usually men.
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female officers in the barracks is difficult and program officers in these cases does not seem fair, you can not create a square on to handle cases of gender violence, simply because the rural population is not large. In addition, agents often ask for vacancies in large nuclei where they have more services (kindergartens, schools, leisure ...) and where they can better reconcile work and family life and personal, a few asked to go to rural areas.
So, first, a woman who has been abused, when it comes to a military base to have their situation (sometimes not necessary, because it is already marked by the blows) and it tends to paralyze normal .

Do you think "says" women who have been abused?.

My unit is located in a village of 7,000 inhabitants, is the nearest barracks in another village of 500 inhabitants.
Everyone knows and you know. By the time someone is approaching a quarter (not to say that the information out there), not even half an hour has passed and it is the commentary of an entire community: you know who it was, why, how it went everything ... I think that fear of losing intimacy is what paralyzes many women in rural areas because it believes that it is something that belongs to the family environment and quickly become public domain. But it has nothing to do with police work to develop it belongs to traditional rural culture and how they are organized peoples.

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