When we talk about security forces, this phrase stops being a slogan and becomes a simple test of the decency of those who govern.
Workers are not Excel rows.
The men and women of the PSP are not variables on a spreadsheet. They are professionals who accumulate nights, holidays, permanent risk, physical and emotional exhaustion.
Defending work and workers is not an ideological luxury – it is a minimum duty of a state that claims to be democratic.
Therefore, a union meeting is not a bureaucratic ritual: it is the moment in which the Government shows, without disguise, its respect – or lack thereof – for those on the front line.
There can be no farce in the “negotiation process”.
At the meeting on November 28, which is expected to be “negotiating”, there was no real negotiation. There was a pre-written script.
Instead of a Minister of Internal Affairs leading and making choices, we saw, once again, a member of the Government under the supervision transformed into a trinket institutional, while the Secretary of State for Public Administration assumes political command of the meeting, in the name of “balance of accounts”.
It’s the Republican hierarchy turned upside down: homeland security in the shadows, finances center stage. Police officers stop being people with rights and become budget items.
Cent proposals for decades-old problems.
If this were still just a shape problem, it would already be serious. But the content of the proposal makes everything really insulting.
The Government presents as its “first priority” the review of paid services, increasing these amounts by 15% and 10% – to around 51.60 euros, for four hours of service outside normal hours (more on weekends and nights). How can the government sell police officers’ time off to private individuals at a lower cost than what they pay for normal service?
At the same time, it announces a 2.15% increase in the special service supplement, which according to ASPP/PSP itself covers only 18% of the workforce and represents 3 to 7 euros per month for those who receive it. 
I.e:
• mainly an instrument paid for, largely by private individuals;
• a minority is offered a few euros;
• 82% of police officers stay exactly the same.
This is after years of demanding more availability, more flexibility, more risk, and after an agreement signed in 2024 that aimed to seriously discuss salaries, supplements and assessment ordinance.
Instead of a global response, what appears is a cosmetic budgetary operation.
It’s not serious. It’s not negotiation. It’s an act.
Speech democracy, behind-the-scenes power.
In public, declarations of respect for the security forces are multiplying. Behind closed doors, a proposal is being pushed forward that is worth cents to some and nothing to the majority, politically driven by those who look at the PSP only through the budget columns.
It is the exercise of power without assuming power: everything is hidden behind technique, “sustainability”, as if treating those who guarantee order with dignity were a risk and not an obligation.
The police continue. ASPP/PSP too.
PSP will continue to comply. ASPP/PSP will continue to denounce, demand and refuse to agree to negotiation processes that humiliate those we represent.
Ambition should never override competence. Much less when the dignity of those who guarantee, every day, the security of an entire country are at stake.
To those who negotiate, I leave only this: do not humiliate.
Each time they do so, they don’t just affect a union or a professional class – they hurt trust in the very democracy they claim to defend.