Senior officials say there will be no more racism arrests in Spain.

Policy Response DateMarch 23, 2012 Country: Spain Address: Madrid General Type: Discrimination, Institutional discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Ethnic minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Policing - law enforcement, Political discourse -parties - orgs, Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism, Integration - social cohesion Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Public Discourse, Political Discourse

Delegate  of the government in Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes has  been explicit. The practice by the police  to make raids racist is completely banned after that she and the general manager of the National Police, Ignacio Cosidó, at the entire  state have been instructed  to end this practice.  That is what informed the  Minister of Social Affairs of the Community, Salvador Victoria, who, following a meeting with the president, declared: "We realize that the police have very specific instructions for these raids do not continue to occur."

Cifuentes also encouraged citizens to witness how these controls to "denounce" them at the station or to the Government Office itself if recur to take disciplinary action against police officers.

This is intended to end a controversy that has been facing over the past months NGOs, part of citizenship, immigrant groups and the main police union with the government.

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