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If approved by Parliament, the law that obliges a sector of the population (citizens in work or similar contexts, school and academic) to have the StayAway Covd application installed on their mobile phones will have to define very well the competences that the company will have. police to supervise. accordance.
Become mandatory the police will be able to record and ultimately voice arrest if someone refuses to show their cell phone.
PSP and GNR junctions say they sense the government’s concern about finding ways to control the pandemic at a time when cases of the disease in the country are skyrocketing, but Point out that this was “not a good idea” as it will not help solve one problem, but create new ones.
To the DN, the National Directorate of PSP says that, for now, it will not take a position in relation to the bill that puts them [aos agentes policiais] in the hands of part of the inspection, at least until it is understood what the diploma will say and what effective powers it will confer on the Public Security Police.
On Wednesday, the Government presented a bill to Parliament that requires wearing a mask on the street and “use of StayAway Covid in the workplace or similar, school and academic”, under penalty of a fine of up to 500 euros.
The supervision of the law, according to the text of the proposal, “is in charge of the Republican National Guard, the Public Security Police, the Maritime Police and the Municipal Police.”
Union: it is a situation that refers to “a police state”
Paulo Rodrigues, president of the largest union of the PSP, believes that if the law is approved, and taking into account the public debate that it has already provoked – with many opinions against and even doubts about its constitutionality – “very complicated situations” will be created.
“Putting the police in charge of cell phones seems to me to be a very delicate and complex situation”, he affirms, stressed that if the law advances, it is a situation with “signs of a police state” and that it reminds him “when, a few years ago, there was a police officer who inspected citizens on the street to see if they were carrying a lighter.”
“The police will have orders to comply and there will be citizens who now express their opposition and may refuse to show their cell phones and, of course, the police cannot stop there …”, he predicts.
“The important thing is that the Government find ways to sensitize people to adopt these behaviors on their own initiative,” he counterattacks.
“It does not seem to us that this should become a police case, the police should only intervene in specific and very exceptional situations.“.
“One of the most ignominious missions” of the Republican National Guard
For César Nogueira, president of the GNR Guard Professionals Association, another of the police forces that will have a supervisory function in the draft bill of the Government, says that the issue of the mandatory use of mask in the street “is peaceful” , but that the same does not happen with the inspection of a personal property like a cell phone.
“Only those who don’t know what the terrain looks like don’t realize how difficult it will be to implement and inspect it. Of course if the law advances we will comply with the orders and fulfill the mission, but there are aspects that have not been taken into account“, he emphasizes.
César Nogueira also has “many doubts about the legality of the magazines” to the citizens who may be authorized and guarantees that if that happens it will be “one of the most ignominious missions” of the Republican National Guard and that it will also serve to ridicule your agents. And give an example.
“It is enough for someone to go and find one of those old cell phones that do not allow you to download the application and tell us that you only have that device. Such situations are going to happen, ”he predicts.
“I understand the good intention, but it was not a very well thought out idea”, concludes.
Government “comfortable with any decision” of Parliament
The Minister of State and Presidency said this Friday that the mandatory installation of the Stayaway covid application on the mobile phone will be decided in Parliament and that the Government is “comfortable with whatever the decision is, because what is at stake are doubts “. and clarifications, which we all know exist ”, assumed Mariana Vieira da Silva.
“We are in a situation in which it is necessary to define measures progressively. The reflection we made was on the importance of guaranteeing new measures. There are measures that, because they affect our rights, our freedoms must be discussed in parliament and that is what we hope for “, justified.
Mariana Vieira da Silva said that the government now hopes “that the parliament will hold the hearings it has to do, that it will listen to the experts, listen to the epidemiologists and evaluate the goodness and necessity of the measure.”
“We all have many doubts, and I have them too, and that is why the debate should be held in the institutions in charge of deciding whether, in the balance between rights and needs, this measure is valid and makes sense, because the doubts that we have all heard and the government has them too. They are very difficult decisions, in line with many other difficult decisions we have made ”, he assumed.
