The Federal Highway Police (PRF) has already spent R$ 31 million on a training center in Santa Catarina.
The Lula government believes the contract is expensive and that the training of highway patrol officers should take place in Brasília.
247 - "The rent for the building housing the Federal Highway Police (PRF) training center in Florianópolis has already cost the federal government R$ 31 million since 2014, when the contract began. The lease was due to expire in February of this year, but it was renewed for another year while the current administration studies how to transfer the Federal Highway Police Corporate University (UniPRF) to Brasília," reports journalist Guilherme Amado in his column on [website name - likely OCR website]. portal Metropolises.
"As the column showed, the Lula government believes the contract is expensive and that the training of highway patrol officers should take place in Brasília, as is done in other Executive branch agencies. Even so, the lease was renewed while a decision has not yet been made on the location of the new headquarters," it reports.
Amado points out that "former PRF (Federal Highway Police) director general Silvinei Vasques was the agency's superintendent in Santa Catarina in 2014, during Dilma's government, when the contract was signed. Vasques is being investigated by the Federal Police (PF) for the police roadblocks during the second round of the 2022 elections and for suspected negligence regarding roadblocks set up by Bolsonaro supporters on highways."