MAI starts today negotiations with PSP and GNR structures
The Minister of Internal Administration starts today with the PSP and GNR structures negotiations for "dignification and valorization of the security forces", without specifying if the Government will assign a mission supplement to the police.
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The four socio-professional associations of the National Republican Guard (GNR) and the six trade unions of the Public Security Police (PSP) that are going to meet with Margarida Blasco demand the allocation of a mission supplement identical to that of the Judiciary Police, but in a note released this week the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) only states that "these meetings will be the beginning of the construction of a basis for understanding and conciliation between the entities involved, with a view to dignifying and valuing the security forces".
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In the same note, the MAI also indicates that the meeting aims to "define and establish the methodology and protocol for hearing and negotiation" and to present "the assumptions of the scope and object for discussion and negotiation between the parties".
An official MAI source contacted by Lusa referred further information on the negotiation process and the increase in the mission supplement to after today's meeting. "We are working on the meeting together with the Ministry of Finance," said the source.
The spokesperson for the platform that brings together the PSP and GNR trade unions and associations, Bruno Pereira, told Lusa that this is the first negotiation meeting with the supervising entity and that it respects the commitment that was made by the current Prime Minister.
The also president of the National Union of Police Officers stated that in the last meeting the minister assumed that the allocation of a mission supplement to the police "is a priority matter" for the Government, therefore not understanding "the shyness" of Margarida Blasco in not assuming that the negotiations are related to this matter.
Also because, according to Bruno Pereira, the main demand and "the only issue" of the police is the allocation of the mission supplement.
The president of the Trade Union Association of Police Professionals (ASPP), Paulo Santos, also told Lusa that "the police are waiting for the Minister of Internal Administration to fulfil what was the promise of Luís Montenegro", believing that the mission supplement is the only subject of the negotiations.
"I want to believe that we are going to discuss the mission supplement. This is the expectation that the police have that today the Government will define the way in which it will allocate the mission supplement and when," he said, arguing that he is "personally concerned about the absence of this reference by the Government and what is so vague that it is the salary dignity and the salary valorisation without any reference to the mission supplement".
The first meeting today takes place at 4:30 pm with the Association of Guard Professionals (APG/GNR), National Association of Guard Sergeants (ANSG), Independent Socio-Professional Association of the Guard (ASPIG), National Autonomous Association of the Guard (ANAG) and National Association of Guard Officers (ANOG).
A meeting with the Trade Union Association of Police Professionals, Independent Union of Police Agents, Union of Police Professionals, National Union of Chiefs' Career, National Union of Police Officers and National Union of Police is scheduled for 6 pm.
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