The prime minister highlighted on Monday the importance of the quality of the evidence collected for the administration of justice and the existence of a mental attitude of “a condominium system and not a smallholding” in the work at the criminal investigation level.
These two messages were transmitted by António Costa at the end of the acceptance ceremony for 97 new PJ inspectors, in Lisbon, with the national director of this police force, Luís Neves, and the Attorney General of the Republic, Lucília Gago, listening to him. among others, those responsible for police, security, defense and intelligence institutions.
Our criminal law is a criminal law of facts, and facts mean evidence. For this reason, the capital element in any process is the work that is done in the criminal investigation, because without evidence there are no facts and without facts there are no crimes”, the leader of the executive began by pointing out, before leaving the following message:
“The sentence is not made in the news of the newspapers, but, as is typical of a democratic state of law, by the sentence in the courts. And the court only knows the facts by the evidence presented to it,” the prime minister stressed.
In the perspective of António Costa, “the quality of the evidence is a key element for the success of the administration of justice”.
“This quality of evidence depends on your work, on the work that is done in the criminal investigation,” he added, then addressed the audience of PJ inspectors.
Another central point of António Costa’s intervention was related to the need for cooperation between the different entities and services in the areas of criminal investigation and security, even qualifying the existence of this sense of “collaboration” as “essential”.
The country opted – I think in a consolidated and lasting way – not to have a national police force, but to have a plural regime of police officers. This necessarily implies that this plurality is exploited to its full potential. And that this potential is not wasted in uncoordinated and disjointed actions”, warned the leader of the Executive.
In his speech, António Costa even insisted on underlining this point about “loyalty and the sense of cooperation” between the different entities and services.
“With the evolution of our society, the country was overcoming a structural problem, rapidly passing from a rural society to an urban society. So for many years, we all carry a small property in our own minds. But this smallholding was falling apart and today we realize that we all live in a condominium system, and that is how we should live,” he added.
Source: Observadora
