The choice to lead the country’s top criminal investigative force, the Polícia Judiciária, has finally been announced – over a month since the previous national director was nominated to a top job in government.
He is Carlos Cabreiro, 59 – up until now the director of UNC3T – the national unit for the combat of cybercrime and technological criminality.
It is unclear how far in advance Mr Cabeiro will have been notified of the promotion. Certainly, there has been no ‘statement’ from him so far.
The announcement was made by the prime minister’s office, shortly after his closing speech following the Higher Council for Internal Security, which approved last year’s RASI (the Annual Internal Security Report).
The PM did say in his speech that he would be announcing the new national director for the PJ very shortly afterwards.
Reports this far present Cabreiro as a graduate of law from Lisbon’s Open University. He did a post-graduate at the Military Academy in ‘the war of information’.
The note from the PM’s office adds that Cabreiro has been a member of the PJ since 1991.
Further information on this nomination will follow, but this far Observador seems to have some of the ‘juicy bits’, for example, Cabreiro led the operation that caught ‘whistleblower/ super hacker’, Rui Pinto – a young IT genius for whom the previous national director definitely had a degree of admiration.
Source: Jornal Económico/ Observador
