PSP publish catch-a-Pokémon safety hints
With the the new online Pokémon Go craze helping to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality, Portugal’s PSP police has thought fit to publish safety hints for users via
PSP police protest scheduled for September
PSP police agents have scheduled a protest for September outside the police force’s national headquarters in Lisbon. The decision was made by 10 unions during a meeting on Tuesday and
Police investigate arson following fire at Faro social housing building
A fire in a social housing apartment building in Faro led to the evacuation of 58 residents in the early hours of Wednesday morning (June 15). Six people, including four-year-old
One in three police agents sought psychological support in 2015
A third of Portugal’s police agents sought psychological support in 2015, with GNR police registering a whopping 300% increase in psychological and psychiatric appointments when compared to 2014. In other
Dissatisfied police can wait 10 years for new work placement
More than 4,000 PSP police agents are unhappy with where they are stationed and have put in for transfers. Lisbon is one of the areas where they least like to
Major police drug raids underway throughout country
Today sees surgically executed police drug raids at various locations around the country. The operations began before dawn, and involved 120 GNR and PSP agents. They centred on 19 locations
Suitcase concealing heroin travels to Faro from India, “via various airports”
PJ police are investigating the reason an unaccompanied suitcase concealing 200 grams of heroin travelled to Faro from India, via various airports, before being picked up by a young Indian
Eleven arrested in Lisbon and Faro police raids
Eleven people were arrested this week in a series of police raids carried out by PSP police in Lisbon and Faro. The raids started on Monday in multiple areas of
Lisbon police bikers threaten mass transfer request
As many as 70 PSP bikers are threatening a mass transfer request from Lisbon’s traffic division, saying they feel their role has been “trivialised in relation to all the others”:
PJ police dismantle first cocaine extraction laboratory in Portugal
PJ police are celebrating the shutting down of a sophisticated cocaine extraction laboratory in Lisbon. It is the first operation of its kind in Portugal and one almost unheard of