Minister announces purge on ‘radical movements’ within Portugal’s police forces
“Zero tolerance” for movements currently abandoning traditional syndicates With ‘hundreds’ of police agents described as abandoning syndicates following this week’s pay deal with the government, minister for internal affairs Margarida
Police receive “largest pay increase” ever agreed by a government
But only five of 13 syndicates involved in negotiations are happy with deal The more than 45,000 members of Portugal’s PSP and GNR police forces are to receive an increase
“Silence and disillusion” – police get no joy from parliament
Officers leave ‘cêntimos’ on pavement, in reaction to PM’s “not one cêntimo more” speech Police officers, unable to get into the parliamentary galleries yesterday, followed the debate on their mobile
Hundreds of police queue to enter parliamentary galleries
In spite of police unions saying they would not be responding to CHEGA’s request for an ‘en masse’ presence in parliament today, hundreds of off duty police agents turned up
Off duty police officers attacked in Lisbon
A group of off-duty PSP police agents was attacked in the early hours of Tuesday morning by drinkers, one of whom reportedly ‘recognised’ one of the policemen and began an
Police identify suspects involved in fatal stabbing of 18-year-old
The last week has seen two teenagers stabbed to death in different parts of the country. The horror in Faro has already seen a suspect arrested. Now, the tragedy that
Judges convict woman for biting police officer
Cláudia Simões given eight-year suspended sentence; police officer gets three years suspended In a ruling that will send tongues wagging for the rest of the day, Cláudia Simões – a
Police ‘movement’ responds to appeal by CHEGA
Portugal’s far right party urges police to demonstrate inside and outside parliament Movimento Zero – the ‘inorganic police movement’ powering forwards with demands for pay parity regarding the ‘risk subsidy’
Portugal chosen for 14th international meeting of police associations
Portugal is hosting the 14th meeting of the International Council for Police Representative Associations – the body representing millions of police officers worldwide – from today until Friday, in Paços
Police unions to present ‘final counter-proposal’ on risk supplement
The platform of police unions representing PSP and GNR announced on Friday that it will present what it called a “final counter-proposal” for an increase in the risk supplement paid