Next Wednesday (March 25) will mark a full month since former PJ national director Luís Neves left his post of eight years to join the government – and since that time, the top job at the country’s leading criminal police force has remained empty. This hasn’t gone without criticism – but yesterday in Brussels, the prime minister ‘guaranteed’ that he is focused on nominating a successor.
Luís Montenegro stressed that “when the head of an organisation steps down, there are those who serve as his/ her deputies and who temporarily take on the coordination duties that would otherwise fall to that head” – and that the PJ “is operating as normal, as indeed has been the case every day with its wide-ranging work.
“That does not mean we are not committed to swiftly appointing new leadership at the PJ and continuing the successful work that has been the hallmark of recent years,” the PM added, deflecting questions as to whether the new director would be a judge/ magistrate, with the response that everything will become clear “at the very moment the next head of the national directorate is announced”.
Source: SIC Notícias
