The new recruits were approved after a drive by the government to encourage more inspectors which first began in 2017 and will now begin a year of theoretical and practical training “acting under the supervision of both Lisbon Airport and the different SEF organisational units2, said the ministry.


The 100 new trainee inspectors join 66 additional trainees, approved in an internal competition and who began their training in April.
Currently SEF has about 800 inspectors and is working to reinforce these numbers as a lack of staff is one of the organism’s main problems.
Between 2017 and 2019, nearly 145 new inspectors were admitted to the Service under an internal civil service competition.
An external competition was launched in December 2017, ending a gap of 15 years in which 100 trainee inspectors who will begin their training were approved.