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The national director of the Public Security Police (PSP), Manuel Magina da Silva, admitted this Sunday that Work is underway on the merger of PSP with SEF, adding that he discussed the issue with the president of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The National Director confirmed at a press conference that he has been working with the Ministry of the Interior. the possible “merger between PSP and SEF”.
In this way, both the PSP and the SEF can be extinguished and there will be a “National Police,” according to Magina da Silva.
“I do not see it with bad eyes” the merger continued.
Speaking with the Lusa agency, Eduardo Cabrita said that the Government Program provides for “a clear organic separation between police functions and administrative functions for the authorization and documentation of immigrants from the SEF.”
The Interior Minister later noted that Work has been carried out “with the participation of the security forces in redefining the exercise of police functions in these areas of border management and the fight against human trafficking networks.”
“This is an issue that the Government is working on, which directly involves the Prime Minister [António Costa], the ministries of Internal Administration, Foreign Relations, Justice and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. It is within this framework of direct participation of the Prime Minister and four government areas that soon, in an appropriate manner, we will explain how to expressly comply with the Government Program ”.said the executive member.
As such, he highlighted Eduardo Cabrita, andThese articles, “obviously, with all due respect, are not advertised by police officers.”
When asked if the possibility of creating a national police could be confirmed, With the extinction of PSP and SEF, following the Spanish or French model, the Minister of Interior Administration replied: “He has neither confirmed nor cleared”.
“What emerges from the Government Program is the separation of police and administrative functions in the SEF, which implies a redefinition of the exercise of powers of the different security forces. It involves the PSP, the GNR and the Judicial Police “, he stated.
The hypothesis of the extinction of the SEF, the transfer of powers to the PSP and GNR was denounced in recent days by the weekly Expresso and the online newspaper Observer and had no comment from the Government.
Today, the Prime Minister, António Costa, avoided talking about the matter and referred this issue later.
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