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Would it not be more rational to assume that there may have been a failure due to a lack of supervisory capacity?
The Minister of Internal Administration denied today that the abuse cases involving police officers are systematic, but acknowledged the existence of a 'culture of violence', particularly among young officers, and called for greater oversight at police stations.
During a parliamentary debate about the cases at the Rato police station and the alleged involvement of a PSP officer in the neo-Nazi group 1143, the minister rejected that abuses by police are systemic but acknowledged a negative trend.
