This Thursday, parliament rejected all bills and resolutions related to the advancement and careers of the security forces, including the PCP’s proposal to merge the PSP and GNR into a single civilian national police force.
The eight diplomas, from PCP, Chega and PAN, voted on this Thursday were all rejected, as the PS voted against all the diplomas, enough for the proposals to ‘fail’.
These were proposals related to early retirement from the security forces, access to information from the health services themselves, an increase in the value of the risk subsidy, but also the PCP’s proposed introduction of a police status statute, which defines rights and obligations for all armed forces , as well as guiding career principles, and a proposal to study the creation of a single national police force, merge the PSP and the GNR, and strip the latter of its militarized character.
For the PCP, “the security forces must have civilian status,” PCP deputy Alma Rivera defended on Wednesday in the debate on the proposals in the Republic’s plenary, adding that “an evolution” in this sense is necessary on the part of the National Republican Guard (GNR), but also of the Maritime Police, military commando troops.
Alma Rivera argued that this merger would bring benefits in managing resources “more rationally and functionally”, with greater distribution of resources and the release of officers from administrative duties to the police, in a position that “it is not a closed proposal, but a starting point for reflection” on a new organizational model for the security forces.
The proposal was fully in line with the BE, with deputy Pedro Filipe Soares defending it “is what would make sense in a democratic country”but also earned Livre’s clear disagreement, with Rui Tavares stating that “it wasn’t yet this time” that the party was convinced by communist arguments, but also by PSD and PS.
Ofélia Ramos, from the PSD, stated that the PCP’s proposal intends to do just that “Restructuring of the security forces that ends the dual system without police”without “fostering broad discussion” on the issue, which he considered “serious”, arguing that “a paradigm shift will create instability”.
In contrast, the PS, through deputy Susana Amador, defended that the “dual and multiple system has already proven effective”, rejecting the proposal of a single police force, but agreeing with the need to share resources and release police officers. for patrols.
Source: DN
