PRF says it has identified cases of police officers suspected of helping fraudsters.
According to the Inspector General of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), Wendel Benevides Matos, all incidents will be investigated.
247 - Directors of the PRF (Federal Highway Police) said they have identified three cases in videos where officers allegedly appear to be helping scammers at road blockades. This information comes from the UOL news portal.
According to the Inspector General of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), Wendel Benevides Matos, all incidents will be investigated.
For now, the cases are concentrated in São Paulo and Santa Catarina.
"No order was given for officers to stop fulfilling their role, and they will face procedures to explain what happened," Matos said at a press conference with journalists on Tuesday morning (1st), at the PRF headquarters in Brasília.
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The Director-General of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), Silvinei Vasques, reported The measures adopted to unblock the highway blockades across the country, carried out in protest against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's (PT) victory in the second round of the presidential election, have been submitted to the Supreme Federal Court (STF). This is according to the column by journalist [name missing]. Fausto MacedoAccording to the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, the measures listed by Vasques "include a request for R$ 970 from the Ministry of Justice to cover travel and per diem expenses for Federal Highway Police officers, the suspension of non-essential administrative activities of the corporation, as well as the suspension of agents' days off to compensate for hours worked."
The report also highlights that Vasques took the opportunity "to reject 'statements by police officers circulated on social media claiming that the corporation would not act coercively to clear the highways'." According to him, the information "does not correspond to the truth." "At no time was such a determination issued by this Directorate, and this individual conduct by these agents will be investigated," he says in a section of the document. The PRF São Paulo Internal Affairs Office has already opened an investigation to examine any irregularities on the part of agents of the corporation.
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