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1Under Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 (Estatuto Orgânico da Polícia Judiciária), what is the institutional nature and ministerial tutelage of the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) of Guinea-Bissau?
A.A paramilitary gendarmerie regiment operating under the exclusive operational control of the Ministério da Defesa
B.A municipal security force subordinate to the regional governors and autonomous city councils
C.A criminal police body and auxiliary of the administration of justice, organised hierarchically under the Ministro da Justiça
D.An independent parliamentary oversight committee reporting directly to the Assembleia Nacional Popular
Explanation: Article 1(1) of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 defines the PJ as "um órgão de polícia criminal, auxiliar da administração da justiça, organizada hierarquicamente na dependência do Ministro da Justiça". Article 1(2) adds that its functions are exercised in defence of legality and in respect for citizens' rights, and that supervision of that exercise belongs to the Ministério Público. Administrative dependence on the Minister of Justice therefore sits alongside prosecutorial oversight.
2Under Article 2 of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010, what is the primary institutional mission of the Polícia Judiciária in Guinea-Bissau's justice administration?
A.To assist judicial authorities in crime prevention, criminal investigation, and forensic evidence collection
B.To administer the national prison infrastructure and manage inmate rehabilitation facilities
C.To regulate commercial vehicle licensing and manage urban traffic flow
D.To adjudicate minor civil disputes and enforce family custody agreements
Explanation: The fundamental mission of the Polícia Judiciária under Article 2 of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 is to act as an auxiliary of justice, assisting magistrates in the prevention and investigation of crimes, gathering material evidence, identifying perpetrators, and performing scientific forensic inquiries.
3Which executive office serves as the highest institutional authority of the Polícia Judiciária of Guinea-Bissau?
A.Procurador-Geral da República
B.The Director Nacional, who directs the Directoria Nacional
C.Comandante-Geral da Guarda Nacional
D.Inspector-Geral do Ministério da Administração Interna
Explanation: Article 25(1) of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 makes the Directoria Nacional, seated in Bissau, the superior organ of the PJ hierarchy, and Article 26(1) gives the Director Nacional the task of generally orienting and coordinating the Polícia Judiciária and directing the Directoria Nacional. Under Article 25(2) the Directoria Nacional comprises the Director Nacional, the Director Nacional Adjunto, the Directoria de Bissau, the SIIC, the DCATE, the Laboratório de Polícia Científica, the Serviço de Armamento e Segurança, the Unidade Nacional de Vigilâncias and the Unidade Nacional de Combate à Droga.
4Which central technical department within the Polícia Judiciária is tasked with scientific crime scene examination, ballistic tests, and fingerprint identification?
A.Direcção de Trânsito e Segurança Rodoviária
B.Departamento de Gestão Aduaneira e Portuária
C.Secção de Recrutamento e Formação Penitenciária
D.Laboratório de Polícia Científica (LPC)
Explanation: The Laboratório de Polícia Científica (LPC) is the specialized scientific arm of the Polícia Judiciária established under Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010, responsible for forensic pathology, dactyloscopy (fingerprinting), ballistics, chemical analysis, and document forgery examination.
5What is the official criminal intelligence and records database system maintained by the Polícia Judiciária under its Organic Statute?
A.Sistema Integrado de Informação Criminal (SIIC)
B.Registo Predial e Notarial Centralizado
C.Sistema Nacional de Gestão Tributária
D.Plataforma Única de Matrículas Automóveis
Explanation: Article 25(2)(d) of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 places the SIIC within the Directoria Nacional, and Article 28 describes its purpose as the centralização, tratamento e difusão of criminal information. The statute also provides for Unidades Locais do SIIC, which form an integral part of it and must transmit information to it.
6The official examination programme lists "Cooperação policial internacional: Interpol" and, among the required legislation, the law creating Guinea-Bissau's Interpol body. What is that body?
A.Secretariado Permanente da União Africana de Migrações
B.Delegação da Guarda Costeira Internacional
C.Tribunal Penal Internacional de Primeira Instância
D.The Gabinete Central Nacional da Interpol, the National Central Bureau seated in Bissau
Explanation: Anexo I of the recruitment notice (Despacho n.º 5/2023) lists international police cooperation — Interpol — as an examinable theme, and Anexo II names the "Lei que cria o Gabinete Central Nacional da Interpol" among the legislation candidates must study. Every INTERPOL member state operates a National Central Bureau linking its national police to the General Secretariat and to other members; Guinea-Bissau has been a member since 1992 and its NCB is seated in Bissau.
7Which category of crime falls squarely within the reserved investigative competence (competência reservada) of the Polícia Judiciária under Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010?
A.Minor petty theft involving unorganized bicycle larceny
B.Simple verbal insults occurring between neighbors in residential quarters
C.Local municipal administrative zoning violations
D.Illicit international narcotics trafficking and organized drug distribution networks
Explanation: Article 5 of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 lists the crimes whose investigation is reserved to the PJ throughout the national territory and cannot be delegated to other criminal police bodies. Paragraph (q) covers trafficking in narcotics and psychotropic substances under Decreto-Lei n.º 2-B/93, and the same article also reserves terrorist organisation, criminal association, money laundering, corruption, prevaricação and peculato.
8How does the legal framework of Guinea-Bissau allocate investigative responsibility for public corruption and financial crimes between the PJ and general police agencies?
A.The general public order police (POP) exclusively investigates financial crimes while the PJ investigates only violent street crimes
B.Financial crimes can only be investigated by private external auditing firms appointed by the commercial chamber
C.The PJ holds reserved competence to investigate corruption, prevaricação, peculato and money laundering
D.Any police officer from any branch may investigate financial crimes without coordination with the central judicial police
Explanation: Article 5(i) of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 reserves the investigation of corrupção, prevaricação and peculato to the PJ, and Article 5(k) does the same for branqueamento de capitais and economic-financial crimes connected with it. Reserved competence means the investigation cannot be deferred or delegated to another criminal police body anywhere in the national territory.
9In the criminal justice procedure of Guinea-Bissau, what is the precise institutional relationship between the Polícia Judiciária and the Ministério Público during an inquérito?
A.The PJ acts under the functional direction of the Ministério Público while maintaining technical and tactical autonomy in investigative execution
B.The PJ acts as an independent judicial branch completely immune from ministerial or prosecutorial oversight
C.The Ministério Público is hierarchically subordinate to the Director Nacional da Polícia Judiciária
D.The PJ conducts investigations only after a final court verdict has been delivered by a trial judge
Explanation: Under the Código de Processo Penal and Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010, the Ministério Público is the titular director of the pre-trial criminal inquiry (inquérito). The PJ serves as its auxiliary operational arm, functionally subordinate regarding procedural direction but autonomous in its technical and tactical execution.
10Under what circumstance may the Polícia Judiciária execute urgent investigative acts (actos cautelares) before receiving formal delegation from the Ministério Público?
A.Only when the Minister of Justice signs an extraordinary decree for each individual suspect
B.Only after publishing a public announcement in the national official bulletin (Boletim Oficial)
C.Under no circumstances, as all police action is null and void without prior written delegation
D.Immediately upon acquiring notice of a crime (notícia do crime), to secure perishable evidence and prevent flight
Explanation: Article 70(1) of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 is explicit: even outside normal service hours and outside the area of jurisdiction of the unit where they work, PJ officers must take the urgent measures within their sphere of competence — until the competent criminal police authority intervenes — to prevent the commission of, or to discover and capture the perpetrators of, any crime whose preparation or execution comes to their knowledge. Article 70(2) adds that they must immediately communicate the facts to the officer responsible for the investigation.

About the Polícia Judiciária Guinea-Bissau Exam

The concurso público externo for Agentes de Investigação Criminal is the official entry route into the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) of Guinea-Bissau, which operates under the Ministério da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos. The 2023 competition was opened by Despacho n.º 5/2023, published in the 2.º Suplemento ao Boletim Oficial n.º 17 of 26 April 2023, for 90 posts in the career of Agente de Investigação Criminal de Nível III, and was governed by Decreto-Lei n.º 4/2012 on public service recruitment together with the Estatuto Orgânico da Polícia Judiciária (Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010). Anexo I of that notice sets the examinable themes — constitutional law, penal law, criminal procedural law, organisation of criminal investigation, the Organic Statute, international police cooperation through Interpol, and ethics and deontology — and Anexo II lists the legislation candidates must study: the Constitution, the Código Penal, the Lei de Combate à Droga, the Código de Processo Penal, the Lei de Organização da Investigação Criminal, the Estatuto Orgânico, the law creating the Gabinete Central Nacional da Interpol, the Regulamento Disciplinar da PJ, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (Resolution 34/169). The official paper is written in Portuguese, open-book, in a single 180-minute sitting at ENA-Bissau. This 100-question bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation of that syllabus, retaining the exact Portuguese legal terminology; it is not an official translation and does not simulate the essay format or language of the real paper.

Exam sponsor: Polícia Judiciária da Guiné-Bissau, Ministério da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos. The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

A competitive multi-stage civil service procedure. The official notice fixes the order of the selection methods as: (1) prova escrita de conhecimentos específicos, sat at the Escola Nacional de Administração (ENA) in Bissau; (2) avaliação psicológica, in two phases; (3) provas físicas; (4) exame médico; (5) exame psicotécnico; and (6) entrevista profissional of 10 to 60 minutes, conducted without consultation against a jury script. Every method and phase is eliminatory, and physical tests, psychological assessment and the medical examination are scored only Apto or Não apto.

Time Limit

180 minutes for the written knowledge paper (single sitting)

Passing Score

0–20 scale to two decimal places; below 9.5 valores or Não apto in any method means exclusion. Final ranking is the descending arithmetic mean of the quantitative scores, weighting the written paper 50% and the professional interview 50%.

Exam / Certification Fees

No candidate application fee is set in the official notice. Candidates must insure themselves for the physical tests, and the jury may require certain medical examinations at external providers at the candidate's own cost.

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Estatuto Orgânico da PJ, Organisation of Criminal Investigation, and International Police Cooperation

Institutional nature and dependence on the Minister of Justice, the vertical structure (Directoria Nacional, Unidades Nacionais, Directorias, Inspecções) and its organs (SIIC, DCATE, Laboratório de Polícia Científica, Unidade Nacional de Combate à Droga, Unidade Nacional de Vigilâncias), reserved competence under Article 5, and Interpol cooperation through the Gabinete Central Nacional.

20% of our practice bank

Ethics, Deontology, Duties and Disciplinary Regime

Rights and duties of public officials, the special duties in Article 12, judicial and professional secrecy, incompatibilities, permanent service, the disciplinary regime under Article 125 and the Regulamento Disciplinar da PJ (Decreto n.º 20/2010), and the statutory limits on force and firearms in Articles 15 to 17.

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Direito Processual Penal (Código de Processo Penal, Decreto-Lei n.º 5/93)

General principles, subjects of the process, evidence, notícia do crime, precautionary and police measures, detention and the inquérito: the Ministério Público's direction of the inquérito, crime scene preservation, flagrante delito, searches and seizures, coercive measures and evidentiary nullities.

20% of our practice bank

Direito Penal (Código Penal, Decreto-Lei n.º 4/93, and Lei de Combate à Droga)

General principles, conditions of punishment and forms of crime, justification and excuse (legítima defesa, estado de necessidade), and the listed offence groups: torture, crimes against property, currency counterfeiting, criminal association, arms and drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption, peculato and breach of secrecy.

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Direito Constitucional (Constituição da República da Guiné-Bissau)

Fundamental principles, fundamental rights and duties, and personal rights, freedoms and guarantees: abolition of the death penalty, prohibition of torture, presumption of innocence, the 48-hour rule, habeas corpus, inviolability of the home and correspondence, the right to counsel, and the non-derogable core in a state of siege.

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  • Passing score: 0–20 scale to two decimal places; below 9.5 valores or Não apto in any method means exclusion. Final ranking is the descending arithmetic mean of the quantitative scores, weighting the written paper 50% and the professional interview 50%.
  • Assessment: A competitive multi-stage civil service procedure. The official notice fixes the order of the selection methods as: (1) prova escrita de conhecimentos específicos, sat at the Escola Nacional de Administração (ENA) in Bissau; (2) avaliação psicológica, in two phases; (3) provas físicas; (4) exame médico; (5) exame psicotécnico; and (6) entrevista profissional of 10 to 60 minutes, conducted without consultation against a jury script. Every method and phase is eliminatory, and physical tests, psychological assessment and the medical examination are scored only Apto or Não apto.
  • Time limit: 180 minutes for the written knowledge paper (single sitting)
  • Exam / certification fees: No candidate application fee is set in the official notice. Candidates must insure themselves for the physical tests, and the jury may require certain medical examinations at external providers at the candidate's own cost. Official sources

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Polícia Judiciária Guinea-Bissau: Suggested Study Strategy

1Distinguish administrative dependence from procedural direction: Article 1(1) of the Organic Statute places the PJ under the Minister of Justice, while Article 1(2) gives supervision to the Ministério Público and Article 125(1) of the Constitution makes it the titular da acção penal. Article 3(2) preserves the PJ's technical and tactical autonomy.
2Work through the reserved competences in Article 5 of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 clause by clause — drug trafficking, criminal association and terrorist organisation, money laundering, corrupção, prevaricação and peculato, contrafacção de moeda, crimes against State security — rather than memorising a generic list.
3Learn the constitutional deadlines exactly: Article 40(1) of the CRGB requires detention without formal charge to be submitted to a judicial decision within a maximum of 48 hours, and Article 39 governs habeas corpus before the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça.
4For discipline, anchor on what the Organic Statute itself states: Article 125 on the regime and on who holds disciplinary competence, Article 124 on Ministério Público instruction, and Article 42(e) on the Conselho Superior de Polícia's parecer where aposentação compulsiva or demissão is proposed. The detailed sanction ladder sits in the Regulamento Disciplinar (Decreto n.º 20/2010), which Anexo II lists as required reading.
5Compare Articles 33 to 36 of the Código Penal side by side: legítima defesa against an unlawful aggression that is imminent or begun but not finished, the excess regime in Article 34, and the justifying and excusing forms of estado de necessidade in Articles 35 and 36.
6Know the firearms rules in Articles 15 to 17 of the Organic Statute: the five situations permitting use as an extreme means of coercion, the warning that may consist of a shot into the air, the duty to aid the wounded, and the written report to superiors even where no damage resulted.
7Focus on the non-derogable core in Article 31(2) of the CRGB: life, personal integrity and identity, civil capacity and citizenship, non-retroactivity of criminal law, the right of defence of the accused, and freedom of conscience and religion.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official role and ministerial tutelage of the Polícia Judiciária in Guinea-Bissau?

Article 1 of Decreto-Lei n.º 14/2010 defines the Polícia Judiciária as a criminal police body and auxiliary of the administration of justice, organised hierarchically in dependence on the Minister of Justice, with supervision of its activity falling to the Ministério Público. It assists the judicial authorities in crime prevention and investigation, and Article 5 reserves to it nationwide the investigation of drug trafficking, criminal association and terrorist organisation, money laundering, corruption, prevaricação and peculato, and currency counterfeiting, among others. The PJ sits under the Ministério da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos.

How many candidates are selected in the competitive recruitment examination?

Recruitment is limited to the posts authorised in the official notice. Despacho n.º 5/2023 opened 90 posts in the career of Agente de Investigação Criminal de Nível III. According to the Portuguese Ambassador's address at the opening of the II Curso in December 2024, 3,875 people applied, 483 were admitted to the first test and 100 were finally approved — ten more than advertised, to cover withdrawals. On 12 March 2026, at the PJ's 43rd anniversary, 96 new criminal investigation agents were sworn in.

What topics are evaluated in the written knowledge examination (prova escrita de conhecimentos)?

Anexo I of the recruitment notice lists seven areas: constitutional law; penal law; criminal procedural law; organisation of criminal investigation; the Estatuto Orgânico da PJ; international police cooperation through Interpol; and ethics and deontology, including the Regulamento Disciplinar da PJ and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Anexo II names the legislation to study, adding the Lei de Combate à Droga, the Lei de Organização da Investigação Criminal, the law creating the Gabinete Central Nacional da Interpol, and the UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (Resolution 34/169 of 17 December 1979).

How long is the written paper, and can candidates consult legislation during it?

The prova escrita de conhecimentos lasts 180 minutes in a single sitting and is expressly held com consulta — candidates may consult the legislation listed in Anexo II. It is written on paper, marked out of 20 valores, and corrected anonymously: identifying marks on the script annul it. Electronic and telecommunications equipment is banned. The paper and the correction grid are published on the PJ website the following working day.

In what language is the official examination administered?

The official examination is conducted in Portuguese, the official language of Guinea-Bissau, and "domínio da língua portuguesa" is itself one of the graded parameters of the written paper. This practice bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation of the official syllabus, retaining the authentic Portuguese statutory terminology alongside English explanations. It is not an official translation and does not simulate the essay format or language of the real paper.

What happens after passing the competitive examination phases?

Candidates approved in all selection methods enter the training course for criminal investigation agents. Appointment follows a probation period after successful completion of that course, and those who complete it commit to remain in PJ service for a minimum of three years. Appointment also requires a light-vehicle driving licence.