Rodrigues: if Congress does not confuse terrorism and organized crime, it will have support from the PF

The director general of the Federal Police (PF), Andrei Rodrigues, stated that the institution’s position in relation to the Anti-Terrorism bill (PL) is that different institutes should not be “confused” – terrorism and organized crime. He highlighted that combating terrorism is “the exclusive responsibility of the Federal Police”.

“Once it is dealt with in the correct field, which is in the field of legislation, which deals with terrorism and that terrorism is not confused with organized crime, the proposal will have the support of the Federal Police, it will have our contributions”, said Andrei in an interview with the Canal Livre program, from Band, shown on the night of this Sunday, the 23rd. The program was recorded last Thursday, the 20th.

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He added: “What we cannot do is confuse one thing with another, they are different ends, they are different purposes, they are different articulation and coping mechanisms and a possible mixture of organized crime, a legislative mixture, I mean, of organized crime with terrorism would only bring harm to the investigation”.

Operation in Rio de Janeiro

Asked about Megaoperation Contenção, carried out in October at the Alemão and Penha complexes, in Rio de Janeiro, Andrei maintained that it is necessary to identify leaders and take actions that are effective and do not simply translate into “mopping up ice”. “Faced with this huge challenge of confronting an advancing organized crime, it is necessary to have coordination, articulation and communication between the security forces,” he said.

Andrei reported that the PF’s current workforce is just under 13,000 police officers and 2,000 administrative employees and stated that the institution has “a range of activities”, judicial police and investigations, as well as administrative police, such as, for example, the area of ​​immigration, control of CACs (hunters, shooters and collectors), passport issuance, control of chemical products, security inspection of bank branches and others. “Therefore, our workforce needs to be expanded”, he concluded.

He considered: “We cannot think of the police with just more people, more weapons and more vehicles and vests. We need to think about other tools, we need to think about technologies, we need to think about investments that add operational capacity and that bring us quality and effectiveness.” The head of the PF defended the expansion of the number of indictments and the increase not only in the quantity, but also in the quality of operations, with the promotion of decapitalization.

Andrei Rodrigues maintained that intelligence and investigation activity is not contradictory to “a possible action that requires more energy, retaking of territory and more forceful actions”, in an indirect reference to the October operation in Rio de Janeiro.