Police operation to raise awareness of rights of disabled people
Special Significant Blue Programme focuses on ‘importance of reporting emergency situations’ Portugal’s PSP police force has today launched its ‘Iguais na Segurança’ (Equal in Safety) operation – which aims to
Police union says government investment ‘insufficient’ and ‘below requirements’
“This government has yet to prove it truly values police” Portugal’s national police union wasted no time in responding to the rather strange public announcement by the prime minister during
PM extolls Portugal’s standing as “one of safest countries in world”
… if one doesn’t dwell too much on juvenile delinquency, group crime and international drug trafficking In another of his slightly ‘off-centre’ remarks in the last 24-hours, Portugal’s prime minister
State councillor/ political commentator believes police have failed
Talking on the ‘subject of the last week: the rioting in Lisbon following the point-blank shooting by police of a black man’, political commentator and member of the Council of
Police union slams “political, media hype” over recent Lisbon riots
Portugal’s trade union association for police professionals (ASPP/PSP) has criticised the “political, journalistic and media exploitation” of the riots that followed the death of Cape Verde citizen Odair Moniz, calling
Human mobility expert suggests Lisbon riots “also due to police violence”
Portuguese geographer Jorge Malheiros believes that the protests in greater Lisbon since the shooting of Cape Verdean Odair Moniz are a sign of the “spatial expression of inequality and disadvantage”
Lisbon municipal police ‘implicated’ in network of human trafficking/ pimping
Two police officers among trio arrested today Three people, including two municipal police officers in Lisbon, have been arrested today as part of an investigation into the crime of trafficking
Police make arrest within 48 hours of Porto’s latest racist attack
Police announced today that they have arrested a 26-year-old man for the two attacks on immigrants in Porto in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The man is facing charges
Police detain 55-year-old man within hours of fatal shooting at Monção bar
PJ police have arrested a 55-year-old man within hours of the fatal shooting of a security guard employed by a bar (used as a brothel) in Monçao. The guard was
Police apprehend three drug mules at Lisbon airport
PSP police at Lisbon airport have been kept on their toes with drug mules arriving in this country from South America. In the last week, no less than three have