A police officer wears a hat with a banner reading, "Urban guards in conflict" during a protest against government?s austerity measures and the elimination of their Christmas bonus pay, one of 14 paychecks that most Spanish civil servants get each year, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
A police officer wears a hat with a banner reading, "Urban guards in conflict" during a protest against government?s austerity measures and the elimination of their Christmas bonus pay, one of 14 paychecks that most Spanish civil servants get each year, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Police march holding a banner reading, "work as they pay you, work as they treat you" during a protest against government?s austerity measures and the elimination of their Christmas bonus pay, one of 14 paychecks that most Spanish civil servants get each year, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
A police officer marches carrying a banner reading, "National police fights for its rights" during a protest against the government?s austerity measures and the elimination of their Christmas bonus pay, one of 14 paychecks that most Spanish civil servants get each year, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Police march holding union flags and a banner reading, "all the police united against the financial cuts" during a protest against government?s austerity measures and the elimination of their Christmas bonus pay, one of 14 paychecks that most Spanish civil servants get each year, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
MADRID (AP) ? Police officers from across Spain are protesting the government austerity measures affecting them, including frozen pensions and the elimination of their Christmas bonus.
More than 5,000 people paraded Saturday to the Interior Ministry building in Madrid, blowing whistles and shouting slogans.
Jose Maria Benito, a spokesman for Spain's Unified Police Union, said "we are here to tell the government that security has to be its priority."
Benito said police were worried that budget cuts meant that working conditions were more precarious, that law enforcement equipment was not adequate and that the 15,000 officers who had left the force were not being replaced.
He said "in socially convulsive times, we need an adequate police response."
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