The Union of Police Delegates of the State of São Paulo launches a campaign this Tuesday (24) to denounce what it sees as the “scrapping” of the Civil Police, amid the governor’s “unfulfilled promises”.
The movement will spread billboards on the state’s main roads, in several cities. A digital campaign will also be carried out to counter the “government propaganda”.
The state Public Security Secretariat stated, in a note, that it “maintains permanent dialogue with representative entities” and that it “recognizes the importance of the work carried out by police officers”.
“The appreciation of security professionals and the strengthening of institutions have been priorities of the current management, with actions aimed at both restoring staff and improving working conditions”, says the text. “Between 2022 and 2025, civil and military police officers accumulated a salary increase of 45.2%. Criminal police officers had an accumulated increase of 54% in the same period.”
The union states that the governor’s electoral promises, from the 2022 campaign, “will be remembered and enforced” during the campaign.
In the first phase, the campaign will reach the interior of the state, the Paraíba Valley and the coast, including cities such as Araçatuba, Bauru, Campinas, Piracicaba, Presidente Prudente, Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto, São José dos Campos, Santos and Sorocaba.
“The population that lives far from the capital needs to know, in fact, how civil police officers are treated by this government, which, in propaganda and speech, sets itself up as an example of Security for the entire country, but, in practice, sacrifices its professionals”, says the president of Sindpesp, delegate Jacqueline Valadares, in a note released by the entity.
“The truth needs to be told: this is a government that does not deliver decent wages to those who face criminal factions, who put their lives at risk and who have an exhausting workload.”
For Valadares, Tarcísio’s “populist speech” generates likes on the networks, but “police officers don’t live off likes”.
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