The destination of parliamentary amendments to shot it and reached R $ 37 million this year alone. It is the largest volume raised by the agency at least since 2020 and includes funds sent by congressmen investigated by the corporation.
The increase coincides with a resolution, created in the management of the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, who narrowed the institutional relationship of the PF with Congress. The norm regulated the function of parliamentary advisory by the delegates who head the PF superintendencies in the states.
In practice, this allows them to capture amendments with parliamentarians to the corporation’s budget, lobby by law projects of interest to the Federal Police and help in the preparation of opinions.
The PF states that this contact does not compromise the impartiality of the institution, since, once incorporated into the budget, “resources are now managed technically and transparently.”
The agency also says that the capture of parliamentary amendments can occur as a way to reinforce investments in public safety, and that the action does not involve votes for votes, “but the technical defense of the institutional interests of the PF”.
The resolution that disciplined parliamentary advisory activity was issued in 2023. That year, PF obtained R $ 4.5 million in amendments. The following year, the amount jumped to $ 17 million and this year the amount has already doubled.
Not all these values have already been passed on and executed by the police. The balance was provided by PF to Sheet And it includes individual, state and commission bench amendments.
They were excluded from the comparison by the Federal Supreme Court in December 2022 and are no longer used by Congress. According to Portal Siga Brasil, do, PF received R $ 9 million of this type by 2023.
According to members of the agency heard by the report, the PF resolution was important for this work because superintendents have more access to the deputies of their localities, which facilitates the interlocution.
Earlier, the task was concentrated in the parliamentary division in Brasilia, which today coordinates the work performed by the superintendents.
A parliamentarian who allocated R $ 500,000 to the PF this year was the senator (PSB-RR), the appeal was intended for the “repression of illicit drug trafficking and crimes against the Union’s goods and services”.
Rodrigues on suspicion of involvement in embezzlement of public resources for the fight against Covid-19. The case is under the rapporteur of the minister, and has no outcome yet.
Sought, the senator’s advisory said the amendment “must have been a request from the PF Superintendence in Roraima”, the state of the parliamentary. He also stated that “all organs ask” and “every year is like this.” The senator with any illicit act.
During a public hearing of the PF Director’s Public Security Commission in July for the destination of group’s parliamentary amendments to the PF.
He said the institution also needs this support and support, “with great transparency and clearness” and “the money of all parliamentarians is very welcome.”
In August to investigate 964 that total R $ 694 million. He has also made several decisions to suspend the use of these resources.
Questioned by SheetPF replied that it reaffirms its commitment to isonomy and impersonality in all investigations and that, once incorporated into the budget, “resources are now managed in a technical and transparent way.”
It also stated that it has internal control and supervision mechanisms, as well as external inspection, “that ensure the conduct of investigations without any political interference.”
He added that, from the institutional point of view, there is no problem with the fact that parliamentarians investigated to destine amendments to the PF, since they are destined to the organ and not to individuals, being applied according to technical criteria and priorities established by the Federal Police itself.
The corporation also stated that parliamentary amendments represent an essential complementary source of resources, allowing to improve the institution’s operational and technological capacity.
With these resources, the agency stated that it can invest in strategic areas such as acquisition of vehicles, armaments and personal protective equipment, construction, renovation and maintenance of police stations and border stations, development of intelligence systems and data analysis and forensic expertise.
“These investments reinforce PF’s performance in complex investigations, combating crime and border protection, ensuring greater efficiency in fulfilling its constitutional mission,” he said.
