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The appointment of the new director of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) occurred this Friday and is already creating controversy. The former commander-in-chief of the GNR, Luís Francisco Botelho Miguel, was elected, but the SEF’s Investigation and Inspection Career Union considers that the appointment of a military officer is “a very bad political sign,” saying that it will also go ahead. »By the Government. Acácio Pereira, president of the union, even made an appeal to the Assembly of the Republic, the deputies and the parties to defend the SEF as a security service and comprehensive “civilista” and “humanist” migratory police.
“A militaristic drift is not a solution for the SEF: it does not serve the security of Portugal and the European space, nor does it combat transnational crime, nor does it protect victims of human trafficking,” he confessed.
Eduardo Cabrita, however, praised Luís Francisco Botelho Miguel, saying that he has “indisputable prestige.” “He is a citizen, now a retired general, who has an indisputable prestige and for that reason, as evidenced by his life and professional career, as well as the functions he performed in the Ministry of Internal Administration, he has the ideal conditions that I and El Primer Minister, we understand it is necessary to comply with the Government’s program, ”the Minister of Internal Administration told journalists this Friday in Salvaterra de Magos.
The parties criticize the government
Several parties, mainly the PAN and the PSD, criticized the way in which the government handled the case of the Ukrainian Ihor Homenyuk, who died at the SEF facilities at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport in March this year, saying that the reaction of the Government was ‘slow and light’.
Chief Superintendent Magina da Silva, national director of the Public Security Police (PSP), proposed a merger with the SEF, ending it and creating a national police force. However, the government did not accept the proposal and chose a new director for the SEF. The successor of Cristina Gatões, it should be remembered, held different command positions between 2010 and 2020 in the GNR, having ceased to function as general commander in July of this year.
The restructuring of the SEF begins early next year and lasts for the next six months. Eduardo Cabrita recalled that this reorganization had already been disclosed in the government program, providing for an “organic separation between the police and administrative functions” for the authorization and documentation of immigrants.
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