The head of the Mossos tries to close the crisis opened by the fracture in the dome with an internal letter to all the police

In the image, Josep Maria Estela, current head of the Mossos d'Esquadra. Albert Garcia

The head of the Catalan police, Josep Maria Estela, has sent a letter to all the

with which he tries to close the open crisis after

revealed the fracture that exists in the current leadership.

Estela sends a message of calm to the body, in which he assures that the current leadership will continue to work, together with the Department of the Interior.

In the letter, however, he does not mention his number two, Eduard Sallent, of whom he asked the Department of the Interior for his dismissal, between accusations of disloyalty and political interference.

Estela starts her writing mentioning the “press articles published in recent days”, to launch a “clear and unequivocal message” in defense of the work done so far.

Some projects, he says, that he has carried out from the headquarters "jointly with the Department of the Interior, how could it be otherwise."

And he defends that the work of the Mossos "is subject to public policies" and works to "attend to them while maintaining the body's governance."

In the letter, which the Mossos d'Esquadra have also disseminated to all the media in a press release, Estela does not show explicit support for her second.

She also does not qualify or deny the published information, which assures that the relationship between him and Sallent is practically non-existent.

The gesture, police sources indicate, seeks to convey calm to the institution, but does not mean that the bad relationship between the two has been resolved.

Among the achievements of her mandate, which barely lasts a year, after Trapero's dismissal, Estela mentions the new promotions, the new vehicles, the new uniformity, "strategic" projects on security, the proximity model, the digital transformation, the feminization, or the plan to combat sexual violence... And the new promotions that are expected for commissioners, together with a decree to restructure the Mossos d'Esquadra that will be ready "in autumn, winter".

"We continue to work together and demonstrate our professionalism day by day," concludes the letter, pleasing the "commitment and loyalty" to the

.

The publication of the disagreements between the head of the Mossos and his deputy has caused an internal earthquake, making clear an "unsustainable" situation, according to various police officers.

Those same sources wonder if Estela, to whom the Department of the Interior has made it clear that he will not dismiss his second, as he requests, will continue to lead the body.

The letter sent to all the police officers implies that the chief commissioner will hold on to his position until the new batch of commissioners and the body's restructuring decree come out at the end of the year.

Estela assumed the leadership of the Mossos d'Esquadra in December of last year, in a “choral” structure, with Commissioner Eduard Sallent, who had already led the Mossos, second-in-command, and Mayor Rosa Bosch.

Interior argued the dismissal of Trapero as the need to rejuvenate and feminize the Catalan police force.

The eldest of the Mossos was also accused of being impervious to the political guidelines to change him.

Precisely, this supposed permeability is one of the criticisms that the current chief Estela makes of his second in command, Sallent, according to police sources.

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