Police officers assigned to the security of the Royal Family in Mallorca are left without accommodation for not paying the hotel fee.

A dozen National Police officers deployed to Mallorca from Valencia were left without accommodation this Monday due to the lack of response from the General Directorate of Police, according to the Jupol (Police Justice) union, the largest union in the National Police force.

According to the union, the police officers are part of an intervention unit that provides reinforcement services within the summer security operation, whose duties include guarding the Marivent Palace and protecting the Royal Family during its stay on the island. However, they report that they have no accommodation for the next seven days after having exhausted an advance payment of per diem that they consider "clearly insufficient."

Sources at Jupol point to this situation as yet another example of the "structural collapse" that, according to the union, affects the payroll offices and puts at risk both the "operational capacity and dignity" of National Police officers. "This is not an isolated case," they warn, and demand urgent solutions to a situation they consider completely unacceptable in a service that affects high-level security in the Balearic Islands.

"The payment was agreed upon in May and has been carried out according to procedure."

National Police sources deny that the affected officers are directly assigned to the security of the Royal Household and claim to have other assignments.

According to these same sources, the payment of the allowances has been agreed upon since May and has always been carried out according to standard procedure. The advance represents 80% of the assigned amount, and once the service commission ends, the invoices must be submitted and the final accounts are adjusted.

They emphasize that of the total of 33 officers initially deployed to Mallorca, 24 have not had any problems with the accommodation conditions or the payment of their allowances. This system is regulated by the General State Administration and varies depending on the professional group of each officer.

The sources consulted indicate that the National Police's payroll has sufficient funds and that the payment problem was resolved weeks ago.

A hotel in Peguera will house the ten unhoused police officers.

A hotel belonging to the Peguera and Cala Fornells Hotel Association will house the ten officers after being left without accommodation on Monday due to insufficient advance payments.

The Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca (FEHM) explained in a statement on Tuesday that the Peguera and Cala Fornells Association informed its members of the police officers' situation, at which point an establishment offered to accommodate them. Furthermore, according to the FEHM, no hotel has evicted any officers from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), the riot police deployed to Mallorca.

On the contrary, it has expressed "maximum collaboration" with the state security forces and "concern" about "the practices of the Ministry of the Interior, which require officers to pay in advance," which "puts the provision of the public security service at risk."

As reported on Monday by the National Police's majority union, Jupol, officers and the General Directorate of Police (DGP) have disagreements over the current model for collecting allowances.

According to the FEHM, while previously the Administration advanced them 80% of their allowances and the remainder was paid immediately after service, now this percentage "is reduced by half and means that officers have to advance money out of their own pockets and it takes them months to collect."