Friday, July 10, 2015

State pays 3.3 million in private security to guard PSP and … – Daily News – Lisbon

The Home Office hires private security companies to ensure the protection of five state agencies facilities, including the Aliens and Borders Service (SEF) and the Public Security Police (PSP), advances this sexta- fair i newspaper.

The contracts, which will cost 3.3 million euros, were approved on Wednesday by the Ministry of Finance, and are for the years 2016 and 2017. They cover the SEF, the National Road Safety Authority (Mor), the National Civil Protection Authority, Social Services PSP and the General Inspection of the Interior, which is the body responsible for auditing the police.

Only with SEF, spend almost 2.6 million euros in the contract with the private security company, Prestibel. This not only guard the detainees at Lisbon and Porto and a housing unit in Porto, where people are expecting that result in processes that may be expelled from the country, as it protects the building where the headquarters of the SEF is on the Tagus Park, in Oeiras.

This Tagus Park building is also headquarters of the National Road Safety Authority, but, although it works in the same place, this has its protegias facilities by another private security company, whose contract worth 200,000 euros, said the newspaper i .

i points out that the protection of these buildings belonging to state institutions could be protected by the military of the GNR. Article 43 of the Organic Law, quoted by the newspaper, reads that the National Guard is responsible for protecting “the premises of state bodies and other entities entrusted.” The newspaper confronted the Minister of Internal Affairs office with this information, but got no answer.

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