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increase salaries for police and military eve of the referendum

The Ministry of Labour Relations after 6 months of study, approved the salary increase and retroactive from January to more than 38,000 active duty also takes place today the transport of electoral materials to the more distant venues, the military police is the first time will use the optional vote.

money deposits to bank accounts came from the morning of Wednesday. That day, police and military received salary increase, retroactive to January . Yesterday, at the military complex of La Recoleta (center-south of Quito), the soldiers referred to the matter in confidence. However, the news was officially confirmed at 10:00.

At that time, the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces (Comaco), General Ernesto Gonzalez, said it was "small increments " that "are in the order of 4%, 5% and 6%, "but" no more than 10% "the salaries of members of the Army, Air Force and Navy.


The increase will not only benefit the 38 246 soldiers, but also to the 38 860 members of the National Police: 77 106 members of the security forces.

According to Gonzalez, the increase was tested for six months. "I had to putting it into effect from 1 January this year, but as a technical process is quite long, the Ministry of Labour Relations completed work last week," said Army General.

On Tuesday, when in Guayaquil had the same ad for the police, Interior Minister, Alfredo Vera, said: "This action has no electoral purposes" . Yesterday, a military acknowledged that this decision could be confused with that issue, but said that "in the armed forces is not so. "

Among the police were no more doubts. A month ago there was a video in which involved the police commander, Gen. Patricio Franco and the Minister of Interior. The latter "said everything was fine and that the increase was in school, but did not mention dates. Suddenly, come with this increase. " Another policeman was satisfied with the new pay, but questioned the date of the announcement. "Why was not adopted before and now you? Why not make ends meet? "He asked.

On 5 October last year, ie five days after police insubordination 30-S, there was a salary adjustment for four grades of the Armed Forces: captains, majors, first non-commissioned officers and NCOs over . A captain who until then was up USD 1 600 per month went on to receive USD 2 140 . Income higher initial and higher NCOs went from USD 1 870 280 aUSD2 . This represented an increase between USD 410 and USD 540 in the police and military in those grades .

That increase corresponded to an approval which was pending since 2009 for the four uniformed hierarchies. Then, rising wages implied USD 70 USD million annually . According to Gonzalez, this time the group "will not increase or will be minimal."

Vera, after pointing out that rising salaries in the Police was not connected to the query, said that for the present elevation available USD 166 million. He stated that the increase was planned, that experts from the Ministry of Labour Relations, Police and Interior Ministry worked out earlier this year.