Police Chiefs Sacked – One For Rape Allegation – One For Hit and Run Allegation
The deputy head of Spain’s National Police has been forced to resign over an allegation of raping a junior police officer shortly after the head of Madrid´s Municipal Police was forced out over allegations of running over a child.
The rape allegation was brought by a female police officer against José Ángel González Jiménez, 66 , who until this week served as deputy director of operations of Spain’s national police.
According to the account provided by the alleged victim’s lawyer, Jorge Piedrafita, the incident occurred after a lunch at a restaurant in April 2025. The senior police official allegedly instructed the woman to drive him to his official residence, where he is accused of raping her.
The complaint filed accuses González Jiménez of sexual assault, coercion and causing psychological harm, and that the officer was subsequently pressured not to report the events, both directly by González Jiménez and indirectly by other senior police officials.
The complaint states that the former police chief began a ‘systematic, obsessive and intensive campaign of telephone harassment and psychological manipulation of the victim aimed at maintaining control over her, minimising the seriousness of his criminal behaviour, blaming the victim for what had happened, preventing her from reporting the incident’ and ‘offering employment compensation in exchange for her silence’.
The complaint also states that the officer and González Jiménez had previously been in a relationship marked by ‘a manifest institutional power imbalance’. It alleges that after the relationship ended unilaterally, the former police chief engaged in persistent unwanted contact.
González Jiménez has been summoned to appear before the Madrid Criminal Court on the 17th March.
In an unrelated case Madrid´s Mayor, Jose Luis Almeida, has sacked the capital´s police chief for allegedly running over a child earlier this year.
Pablo Enrique Rodríguez, the head of Madrid´s Municipal Police was forced out over an incident involving a child being run over during the nationwide blackout last April.
The victim sustained minor injuries, but the incident and the subsequent actions of the leadership triggered a storm of criticism.
Rodríguez failed to report the event promptly and, according to the opposition party Mas Madrid, tried to conceal key details.
The incident remains under investigation.
