Three Porto Police Officers Jailed over ‘Drugs-for-Informants’ Scheme
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During the reading of the accordion the magistrate states that "to wear the uniform does not give you the right to pass over what is legal." The three agents were sentenced between four and eight years in prison.
The Court of São João Novo sentenced three PSP officers to prison sentences of up to eight years and nine months for abusive police procedures during drug-fighting operations in Porto. Judges found it proven that the defendants practiced serious crimes.
Police officers working to combat drug trafficking and consumption in Porto established "pacts of silence" with drug addicts so that they would identify traffickers, giving them money and drugs.
The abuses committed by three PSP (Public Security Police) officers during anti-drug trafficking operations in the Porto area resulted in prison sentences handed down by the São João Novo Court on Tuesday. The sentences range from four years and ten months to eight years and nine months, while a sub-commissioner of the Command […]
Three officers and a subcommissary of the command of the PSP of Porto was accused of abusive police procedures in 2022 and 2023.
Three Porto police officers jailed over ‘drugs-for-informants’ scheme
Three former officers of Portugal’s Public Security Police (PSP) have been sentenced to prison after a Porto court found they diverted drugs and cash seized during police operations to pay The post Three Porto police officers jailed over ‘drugs-for-informants’ scheme appeared first on Portugal Resident.
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