After the chaos of this Sunday at the Lisbon airport, with hundreds of passengers from outside Europe queuing for up to four hours to pass the border control counters, with fewer employees than usual thanks to a full number of SEF workers who was celebrating at At the same time, the Minister of Internal Administration will present this Tuesday the contingency plan for airports that aims to prevent similar situations from occurring in the future.
One of the measures, Public advances, will be the creation of a kind of greenway for passengers, taking advantage of the electronic equipment for facial recognition and digital identification of existing passports.
According to the newspaper, changes will be made to the machines so that they can carry out a prior control of passengers —those whose documents present doubts— instead of going to one of the face-to-face service counters, where all passengers will still have to go through. , will be sent immediately to an inspection service of the SEF, so that the situations can be clarified separately and without increasing the queues.
In addition, adds Público, another of the measures of the plan that José Luís Carneiro will announce this Tuesday is the increase in the number of SEF offices in operation -in the case of Lisbon Airport, the idea will be that at least the 16 all existing branches start to work, a situation that usually does not happen.
To ensure that there are human resources to ensure this reinforcement, the AMI will temporarily mobilize, through a requisition regime, SEF inspectors from other services.
The minister had already announced, to ensure functions “in the routing” of passengers and “to guarantee a faster response”, PSP and GNR agents will also be integrated into the SEF contingent. Speaking to Lusa, the president of the Border Investigation and Inspection Inspectors Union announced on Monday that he will present to the court “a summons for the protection of rights, freedoms and guarantees” to prevent the implementation of the measure.
Source: Observadora
