Corbetta, the case of the policewoman discovered to photograph the acts of the municipality then drawn as a trace in a public contest

“If it is random, we will ask the agent to give us six numbers to play in the lottery.” Use irony, the mayor of Corbetta Marco Ballarini, to comment on what appears to be a matter as serious as it is disturbing. It all begins on July 20, when a policewoman is surprised, during her hours of service, by rummaging through a commando cabinet, where confidential documents are also kept. That closet is prohibited, but he is photographing some papers. One in particular: it is a municipal resolution for the purchase of a car through regional financing. An ordinary document and in any case public, available on the City Council website.. But the agent first tries to obtain a copy by asking his colleagues for a courtesy in two different offices and then decides to provide it on his own. Based on his work schedule, he should be on patrol. Instead, taking advantage of the absence of the brigade chief, he opens the drawers of the local police command and appropriates the document that interests him.

At one point, however, the commander returns and surprises the agent with the smartphone in hand, while taking a photo. Surprising is the policewoman’s response to the request to explain his behavior. The 51-year-old woman allegedly hinted that she needed the document for study purposes, adding that soon after she would participate in a contest to become an officer in the municipality of Garbagnate Milanese. All true. In fact, two days later, on July 22, MP arrives at the written test of Garbagnate Milanese. And among the exam questions, the agent is asked to answer the following question: “The candidate prepares the draft municipal council resolution proposal for joining a regional competition for the purchase of service cars.” The policewoman can easily answer, having read and studied Corbetta’s council resolution, virtually identical to the question. Coincidence? All can be. Despite this ‘stroke of luck’ the competition, after the oral test, did not end well: the agent (who obtained the highest score in the pre-selection test) is fourth. However, it obtains the so-called eligibility, which is the possibility of being summoned by other entities that are extracted from the official ranking. “A very lucky woman. Nothing to the contrary, but I would prefer these skills to be exercised outside of working hours. The agent should have been in the street, while he was in the city hall opening the wardrobes of his colleagues, “said Mayor Ballarini.

The interested party, through her lawyer, denies having acted wrong: “Things did not turn out that way. There is an ongoing smear campaign against the agent, who suffers harassment ”. In Corbetta, meanwhile, the policewoman receives a formal letter from the local police commander. She denies: “Nothing was delivered to me.” The document, however, exists and inside it says: “There are no official reasons why (she, editor’s note) was surprised while, without any authorization, she opened and subsequently photographed documents related to post-regional contributions assignments.” . The letter ends with a peremptory invitation to “respect the roles and obligations of custody of colleagues’ files” and “take into account the effects of one’s own actions in terms of privacy and personal data management.” There is no peace for the command of the Corbetta brigade. After agents caught them watching pornography in the officeAfter the lunches in the restaurant (in charge of the citizens) during the service and after the cocaine found in the captain’s car, this is another scandal, although much less than in the other cases, that affects the local police from a small town in the Interior of Milan, quiet only in appearance.