Police reject proposal and maintain Operation Legality.
Representatives of the military police of the Federal District will announce the category's decision to reject the 22% salary readjustment proposal offered by Governor Agnelo Queiroz (PT); this morning, about 14 police officers and firefighters rejected the district government's proposal for readjustment of benefits; "There was 100% rejection by the 14 people present at the assembly," said Sergeant Manoel Sansão Alves Barbosa, vice-president of Aspra-DF; for the entity, it is necessary to end the "salary gap between a colonel and a soldier".
Paulo Victor Chagas - Reporter for Agência Brasil
Representatives of the military police of the Federal District will meet shortly with the PM's general command and government representatives to announce the category's decision to reject the proposed salary adjustment. This morning, approximately 14 police officers and firefighters rejected the district government's proposal for an increase in benefits.
The meeting was called by the commander-general of the Military Police, Anderson Carlos de Castro Moura, after the assembly rejected Governor Agnelo Queiroz's proposal. There will be no official statement from the command regarding the rejection of the agreement until the end of the meeting, scheduled for late afternoon, when the situation should be analyzed.
According to Sergeant Manoel Sansão Alves Barbosa, vice-president of the Association of Military Police and Firefighters of the Federal District (Aspra-DF), the lack of a proposal for career restructuring and balance between categories was what motivated the rejection of the proposal.
"There was 100% rejection from the 14 people present at the assembly. The police officers wanted salary parity, they will not give up on parity," he explained. "The proposal is good for the officers, but not for the enlisted personnel," declared the sergeant. According to Sansão, there is still hope that the government will present a more favorable proposal. "There has to be one, otherwise there's no way, there's no way to continue as things are," he stated.
For Aspra, it is necessary to end the "salary gap between a colonel and a soldier." According to the association's vice-president, the police officers also decided to continue Operation Legality, which, unlike the so-called "go-slow" operation, denied by the movement, stipulates that workers follow the legal requirements of not exceeding the speed limit on the roads, traveling at the prescribed speed.
According to an official statement from the Military Police command, released before the assembly, the GDF's proposal "aims to restore the dignity of military police officers" and "grants equal treatment in relation to other categories" of Public Security in the Federal District.