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The extinction of the Foreigners and Borders Service as a criminal police force is on the Government’s table and is even the most likely scenario, with an announcement of a predictable decision already for the coming weeks, according to TVI from sources close to the Internal Administration.
Guardian source confirmed to TVI that the process was prepared by the Government with the approval of Belém and that, in the limit, a new body can be created that will be in charge of granting visas, residence permits and asylum applications. The same source admitted that the process was accelerated by the death of Ihor Homeniuk.
The personnel of inspectors in the different categories, with around 1000 elements, can be absorbed by other entities, such as the PSP, GNR, Judicial Police -in the areas of criminal inspection, prevention and investigation-, and by bureaucratic services for attribution of visas. and residence permits, currently within the scope of the SEF, a new body may be created under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Internal Administration.
The SEF, upon disappearing, must leave to the PSP all border control at national airports – places where the PSP is currently securing facilities – and the PJ, reinforced with more inspectors, is left with the exclusive most serious criminal investigation, where up to now the SEF has also intervened: human trafficking and criminal association with a view to exploiting illegal immigration.
The most complex part of this restructuring, with the cessation of the SEF, is related to the remuneration and functional statutes of the inspectors who must seek equivalency in the police of which they are part.
This measure was prompted by the murder of an immigrant at the Lisbon airport in March, at the hands of elements of the SEF, but the ungovernability of this security service lags behind.
