ERC received 11 complaints regarding police action in the capital, accompanied by the NOW channel, in which police officers drag suspects of crimes. Coins says it will be “always on the side of all security forces.”
The Public Prosecution Service (MP) is investigating the performance of the Lisbon Municipal Police “following journalistic reports“In an inquiry to be carried out by the Lisbon Department of Research and Criminal Action (DIAP).
Lusa questioned the PGR about the suspicions of the crimes that support the investigation of the MP, if the inquiry is on agents in particular or the service of the Lisbon Municipal Police itself and whether the mayor will be inquired in this context, but has no response to these questions.
The news about the opening of an inquiry as to the performance of the Lisbon Municipal Police was advanced this Friday by the newspaper, which states that the MP sees indications of crimein particular on members of this administrative police that, in NOW television channel, they appear to the landscape, disguised as tourists, to deter suspected crimes such as illegal street selling.
According to the DN, the Public Security Police (PSP) “did not see problems” in the performance of the Lisbon Municipal Police.
No Entanto, a Regulatory Communication Regulatory Entity (ERC) received 11 complaints against reports with the Municipal Police, being ascertaining the conduct of reporters from the Now channel.
Coins “always on the police side”
About the investigation in the course of the MP, in a statement sent to Lusa the mayor of Lisbon stated: “I am and I will always be on the municipal police side and all security forces.” Carlos Coins states that this administrative police are governed by the “principles of legality, adequacy and proportionality”.
The social democrat also argued that he will continue to “always” to encourage any security force to enforce the law and impose order in the name of the protection of all citizens.
Coins gave illegal orders to the Municipal Police
The news about the establishment of a criminal investigation comes the same week as it was the opinion of the PGR Advisory Board on the competencies and attributions of the municipal police, which contrary the position of the Mayor of Lisbon to order the Municipal Police to hold suspects of crimes in the city.
According to the opinion, “the Constitutional Law is opposed to the attribution of the qualification, the statute and the legal competences of the ‘Criminal Police Body’ to the Municipal Police, as it is exclusively committed to administrative police and internal security”, although the municipal police staff is composed exclusively by PSP police officers.
“Municipal police officers [somente] They may hold suspects in the case of a public or semi-public crime punishable with a prison sentence, in the act, and it is up to them to elaborate their respective news and detention and the delivery of the detainee immediately to the judicial authority, or the criminal police body, ”reads the opinion.
In reaction, the Mayor of Lisbon defended “A small change” The Maki To allow the Municipal Police to stop suspects of crimes in the act and take them to a PSP squad. Opposition councilors in the Municipal Executive, namely PS, PCP, Free, BE and Citizens by Lisbon (elected by the PS/Free Coalition), criticized the position of the mayor regarding the reinforcement of municipal police competences and argued that the PGR opinion “cannot be ignored.”
The PS, the main opposition party, also said that the opening of an inquiry by the General Inspection of Internal Administration (Igai) on the actions of the Lisbon Municipal Police is a cause for concern, “especially by the reputational spot for the House.”
