The Portuguese Air Force (FAP) was required to provide permanent military personnel with a manual for the on-duty training course for Judicial Police Trainee Inspectors. The case has been in the courts since 2018 and has now reached the Supreme Administrative Court, which, in a ruling dated October 12, upheld the first court decision. And while the FAP was fighting in court, the serviceman in question, a computer technician with the rank of lieutenant, was not only accepted into the course, but also underwent training, was an intern at the PS, and on October 1, 2020, was accepted into the rank of inspector.
Five days after this decision was published in the Diário da República, the military achieved its first victory: the verdict of the Administrative and Fiscal Court (TAF) of Coimbra annulled the act of the then FAP chief of staff, General Teixeira. Rolo, who decided on Sept. 14, 2018, that a soldier “cannot be ordered to attend the PJ Trainee Inspector Training course.”
The FAP has appealed the verdict of the Coimbra TAF and the Supreme Court now states that the soldier, “since he was admitted to the course (…), since he met all the necessary legal requirements (…), does not require any higher education permit in order get to attend the specified course.”
Author: Manuela Guerreiro
Source: CM Jornal
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