The President of the Union of Professional Police Officers (ASPP) said this Wednesday in Torres Novas (Santarem) that the measures announced by the Minister of the Interior in Parliament are a “delusion” and a “provocation”.
Interior Minister José Luis Carneiro guaranteed this Wednesday that police officers involved in World Youth Day (WYD) security will have reduced working hours, rewards for exceptional performance, and payment of 100% bonuses.
“Border control, operational reinforcement, conditions of payment for exceptional work, 100 percent daily allowance for internally displaced persons, work shifts reduced from eight hours to six hours, living conditions, transport, food, articulation with a Special device for extinguishing rural fires and testing network communications are among the important issues that were resolved in a timely manner,” said José Luis Carneiro during a hearing in the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees.
Paulo Santos, who spoke to reporters in front of the Practical Police School in Torres Novas, at the end of the ASPP board meeting, said that José Luis Carneiro “uses words in a narrative that deceives journalists, deputies and he deceives the police”, but “he is not in able to deceive the ASPP.
“What the minister does with words is a delusion and a provocation for the police,” he said.
According to Paulo Santos, the reduction in hours from eight to six “totally contradicts what the national director said that this reduction was introduced so that the police would not be able to go out to eat,” and is intended to “push the police in order to then provide six more hours of paid services.”
For the president of the ASPP, the minister’s message was intended to “confuse everything, but you can’t confuse the police.”
This Wednesday, the ASPP announced “innovative and highly creative initiatives during, before and after the WYD, both in Lisbon and with the teams and dioceses that will be organizing the events, as a way to showcase the ‘dissatisfaction’ of PSP professionals. .
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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