The interior minister said on Tuesday that since 2019, 107 PSP and PPR employees have been fired, retired and removed from service for violating “the fundamental values of the rule of law.”
At a parliamentary hearing on the alleged involvement of PSP and GNR members in activities that violate the rule of law, namely the dissemination of racist, xenophobic, misogynist and hate messages, José Luis Carneiro spoke of the “brutality of execution by the GNR team and the PSP’s instruction to monitor attitudes and behaviors that inflict damaging the fundamental values of the rule of law.”
“In the period from 2019 to November 2022, 107 PSP and PPR servicemen were fired, forcibly dismissed and dismissed from service. Of these, 36 were fired, retired and involuntarily discharged from service between May and November of this year,” the minister explained in a hearing requested by PCP, BE, PAN and Livre.
José Luis Carneiro assured deputies that “The General Inspectorate of Internal Administration (IGAI), the GNR Command and the PSP leadership are doing systematic, serious and thorough work to improve recruitment, training, information, awareness, monitoring and authorization in order to prevent individual attitudes and behaviors that violate the values of the democratic rule of law.”
The official also said that next year, training in the criminal sphere will be conducted by IGAI inspectors from the judiciary.
The minister’s hearing comes after a report by a Portuguese consortium of investigative journalists, which includes journalists, lawyers and academics, that allegedly nearly 600 PSP and GNR members, most of whom are active, are using social media to break the law by writing racist and hate messages. .
Following the publication of the journalistic work, the Government announced that the IGAI would launch an investigation into this case of social media posts by law enforcement agents that allegedly incited hatred and violence.
The Prosecutor General’s Office also announced that it had begun checking on these publications.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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