The GNR Traffic Brigade will initially have around 1,300 soldiers, the same number of personnel currently working in the traffic area, the Minister of Internal Administration said this Tuesday.
The GNR Traffic Brigade will initially have around 1,300 soldiers, the same number of personnel currently working in the traffic area, the Minister of Internal Administration said this Tuesday.
Luís Neves, who is being heard in the parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, was questioned by several deputies about the reactivation of the Traffic Brigade (BT) of the Republican National Guard announced last week as one of the measures to combat road accidents.
Asked by Liberal Initiative deputy Rui Rocha about whether BT will have 1,300 elements, the same ones that GNR currently has in the transit area, the minister replied that “in the initial phase they will be more or less the same”, but the organizational issue ceases to be a district issue and becomes national in scope with a single command.
“What is at stake is a single command that allows, from the point of view of hierarchy and discipline, to have a unified vision”, he said, highlighting that the general command of the GNR will also present a plan.
The minister highlighted that with “the extinction of the Traffic Brigade, in 2007, A fundamental component of continuous, specialized and risk-oriented supervision has been lost.”
“What we intend to do is definitely recover this capacity. Efficiency and uniformity and operational control of the traffic service require a very firm, clear and specialized and unified command structure, without ever calling into question the competences that the Public Security Police have in urban areas”, he maintained.
Luís Neves also said that the main road axes, complementary networks and highways “require coordinated action based on a single decision chain”.
