Portugal’s PSP police arrested 1,281 people on suspicion of domestic violence last year – with figures for 2023 pointing to this being up 32%.
The urban area force also registered 15,781 complaints relating to domestic violence, the PSP reveals in a statement today.
Of the 1,281 arrests registered, 625 were ‘in flagrante delicto’, adds the statement, which does not make a direct comparison with 2023, but analysing data from that year one can see that 2024 saw 310 (or 32%) more detentions and 282 (1.8%) more complaints.
