Members of the PSP and GNR return this Thursday to protest for better wage conditions, demanding an increase identical to that paid to the judicial police, with duties at Portuguese airports and the seaport of Lisbon.
Following demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto that brought together thousands of security forces in January and were considered the largest ever, the platform uniting the PSP trade unions and the GNR associations is holding pickets from 6 am this Thursday at Lisbon airports. Porto, Faro, Ponta Delgada and Funchal, as well as the seaport of Lisbon.
Platform spokesman Bruno Pereira told Lusa that police chose the airports for the picket because they are “symbolic for everyone who visits Portugal” and the protests are aimed at “demonstrating the problems with the salaries of the Portuguese police.”
The President of the National Union of Police (SNOP) added that it was “important to keep this issue on the agenda” for the next government to take a position on paying a mission allowance similar to that made for PJ
The platform, which brings together seven public security police unions and four National Republican Guard associations, also plans to hold a meeting next Monday at Praça do Comércio in Lisbon, and a national meeting of the PSP and GNR police on March 2. military personnel.
Members of the PSP and GNR have staged several protests demanding an allowance identical to that allocated to the Judicial Police, with the protest starting over a month ago.
Most of the protests have been called through social networks, namely WhatsApp and Telegram, with an inorganic inop movement emerging, in which trade unions do not interfere, despite the existence of a platform created to demand a review. wage supplements in law enforcement agencies.
In recent days, several PSP police officers and GPR military personnel have been injured, leading to the cancellation of I and II football league games, despite the fact that the platform does not suggest that they are a form of protest, the interior minister said. deciding to launch an urgent investigation at the Main Inspectorate of Internal Administration regarding these sudden victims.