44 elite police officers absent from Benfica-Gil Vicente must be given sick leave

The 44 members of the PSP Intervention Corps (CI) who took sick leave due to the lack of supervision of the Benfica-Gil Vicente match in the First Football League, which took place on 4 February at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, have been summoned by their respective managers. provide documents confirming the diseases they declared at the time.

Although this action was known almost during the game, PSP was able to resort to an alternative plan to ensure its security.

Despite this, the National Directorate of these Security Forces launched an internal investigation to determine what was the reason for this concerted action, which was part of several actions carried out by agents of the Security Forces in protest against the government’s provision of functional allowance to the Judicial Police.

Now they are gradually returning to work in another operational group of the Investigative Committee (we recall that because of these coordinated actions, the command of the riot police, which includes the Investigative Committee, gave the order to liquidate the 3rd operational group, which included these agents, the part that determined them integration into other groups), 44 agents are asked to sign statements. They require them to provide documentation of losses. If they fail to do so, they may be subject to individual disciplinary action.