The PSP command of the Faro district has suspended the shooting tests indefinitely after several police officers failed the tests again at a new meeting this week, a police source told Lusa this Friday.
According to a PSP source, a new shooting certification session was held in the Algarve this week, but since the police again failed, ostensibly in protest, the Faro district command decided to suspend practical shooting indefinitely.
Last week, 22 of 24 police officers who took part in two marksmanship certification sessions failed the exam and were subjected to a second test.
A police source explained that the Faro shooting was decertified to avoid the risk of more unused police officers.
If the shooting fails, the police confiscate their weapons and begin to perform duties solely for administrative responsibility, losing the right to receive bonuses.
A police source told Lusa that several PSP agents in the Algarve have started a new form of protest and are deliberately failing the practical shooting test in order to remain unarmed and therefore unable to travel abroad.
PSP police officers conduct annual marksmanship tests to ensure they are proficient in the use of weapons, with the bullets used in practical tests being one of several forms of protest.
Another police source also told Lusa that the national director of the PSP has already issued instructions to the territorial commands that practical firing may be suspended for reasons of “better management of human and operational resources.”
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 of security force additions and has already organized two major demonstrations in Porto and Lisbon.
In recent days, several PSP police officers and GNR soldiers have been injured, although the platform does not suggest that this is a form of protest, and the Minister of Internal Affairs has ordered the opening of an urgent investigation by the Main Inspectorate of Internal Administration. in these sudden victims.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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