The general commander of the PRM, Bernardino Rafael, has warned that he will not allow police officers to get into debt through bank loans. According to him, the situation is damaging the lives of the officers themselves and their families.

The measure is circulating through an audio recorded by the agents themselves at a meeting between the commander general of the PRM and members of the corporation in the city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado, reports the newspaper Carta.

In the audio, Bernardino Rafael says that he will instruct all the commands in the country not to accept requests from PRM agents to take out bank loans. The source also says that there are cases of indebtedness in three banks, but the lives of these members remain in misery.

"Three banks have granted loans, and the beneficiaries have no land, no idea, I'm serious as your father, and I'll even write it down, any of our services, the logistics and finance directorates will stick it in there, I don't want a member of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique to go and take out a loan at the bank... there are cases of fraudsters, they lend here and run away, they don't finish paying, they're fugitives," he said, in the audio quoted by Carta.

Also quoted by the same newspaper, the general commander revealed that at the end of the month some officers are left with only 3,000 meticais, after the deduction, when they have families with children to support, a fact that in a way influences their performance in the corps.