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The national leadership of the PSP clarified in a statement that the statements made this Sunday by the director about a restructuring of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) were only a “personal look” that did not intend to condition any restructuring.
The national director of the PSP “has just presented his personal vision on the ongoing restructuring that, obviously, does not affect the joint work underway between the security forces and services and the government’s decision,” the statement read.
The same document also indicates that the national director of the PSP “obviously did not intend to condition any ongoing restructuring of the internal security system, regretting that his statements were interpreted in this way.”
The national director of the Public Security Police (PSP), Magina da Silva, admitted this afternoon that work is being done on merging the PSP with the SEF and that she discussed the issue with the President of the Republic.
“What has been announced and has been worked on with the Ministry of the Interior will not go through absorption, but through the merger between PSP and SEF,” said Magina da Silva, after a meeting with the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Belém Palace, after days of controversy surrounding the death of a Ukrainian citizen at the SEF facilities at Lisbon airport in March.
Shortly after Magina da Silva’s statements, the Minister of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita, told the Lusa news agency that the reform projected in the SEF will be announced “in an appropriate manner” by the Government “and not by a police director” .
Tonight the national directive of the PSP justifies that the statement is to clarify, “taking into account the controversy apparently generated by the reference to the restructuring process” of the SEF.
The document also says that the ongoing restructuring process “appears as an opportunity to update the name of the PSP,” since it is constituted “not only as a criminal prevention police, but also integrates other aspects and executes other missions,” a namely, criminal investigation, special administrative police, airport security, and possibly border control, “if the Government so decides.”
The PSP also says that the designation of “National Police” would align the country with the “nomenclature attributed to the civil police in countries where there is a dual system of forces (a civil security force and a military force).”
The national leadership gives the example of Spain (Policia Nacional), France (Police Nationale) and Italy (Polizia di Stato).
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