The Council of Ministers will consider on Thursday a proposal to tighten sanctions against those who attack security forces while on duty, the interior minister said on Wednesday.
“This is an offer that will be made tomorrow. [quinta-feira] decision of the Council of Ministers and which will tighten the conditions for punishing those who attack the security forces,” José Luis Carneiro told reporters after the inauguration of the new commander of the PSP Porto.
A government official said it was a “very clear sign” that attacks on security forces “will not be tolerated from a rule of law perspective.”
He said the rule aims to prioritize trials for these types of crimes, speed them up and increase sentences from three to four years.
José Luis Carneiro noted that when police forces exercise their powers “disproportionately”, the Ministry of the Interior “effectively demands” the immediate initiation of an investigation procedure to determine responsibility in accordance with the conditions in which these powers were exercised.
“If it is true that citizens (and rightly so) do not recognize the arbitrariness of power, we also cannot accept, as citizens, that the police are the object of neglect, disrespect and aggression, as they are,” he concluded.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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