Opinion (Rogério COPETO / Official GNR): HONOR OF STATE, JUVENILE VIOLENCE AND REFEREES
Several were the events that filled the pages of newspapers and occupied several minutes in last week's TV news, and the death of the former President of the Republic, Dr. Mário Soares, reason to publicize the Safety Unit and State Honors (Ashe).
Rogério COPETO
Lieutenant Colonel of the GNR
Master in Law and Security and Homeland Security Auditor
Head of the Education Division / Command Doctrine and Training
The death of former President of the Republic, join the release of a video of aggression among adolescents reason to talk again of youth violence, to finish talking on the insecurity of referees.
The death of the former President of the Republic, Dr. Mário Soares on Saturday 7 January, by 15H30, led to performing a security operation, whose planning began at that very moment, fitting the GNR providing the respective State Honors, by USHE, for the first time since the 25 April 1974, will have the task of ensuring the funeral honors to a former President of the Republic, fulfilling such a prestigious mission with professionalism and dignity, that fulfill all the tasks assigned to them, ranging from the "Honor Guard", passing through the "Bodyguards of Honor" to the "Render Solemn Guard at the Palace of Belém", ceremony that is already constituted as a must-visit event and part of the sightseeing tour of Lisbon, by the way is brilliantly executed, not getting so behind any other "Guards Surrender", taking place in other European capitals, not to mention the Charanga Horse, the only one in the world to play at a gallop and the Symphonic Band of the GNR, honoring both GNR and Portugal, where they act, whether in national territory, be abroad.
For this reason we take the opportunity to publicize the USHE, relying on existing information on the GNR page www.gnr.pt, where we learn that this unit is responsible for the protection and security to the premises of state bodies and the provision of State Honors, constituting as heir of the Royal Guard Cavalry units Police and the Cavalry Regiment, so it is depository of their traditions and historical patrimony and documentary latter, which maintains the National Banner, whose origin comes so, Cavalry Regiment junction extinct in 31 December 2008, with the Company's Star, the Company Lóios and Fanfare, all belonging to Infantry Regiment, also extinct in 31 December 2008, and also the Symphonic Band of the GNR, being a provision of State Honors assigned, as a part of its mission, through its Honors Group of State and Presidential Squadron, that in coordination with the State Protocol, performs all the ceremonies to ensure from foreign and national entities the honors they deserve.
We continue the article to address the issue of youth violence has already treated more than once, having been the first time in May 2015, by reason of disclosure in social networks a video that showed two teenagers assaulting a third teen, while being encouraged by others, having also occurred at the same time the murder of a teenager 14 years for a young adult to 18 year old. After the year 2011 a video of two teenagers who beat a third have shocked at the time, the majority of people and it has been discussed to exhaustion, repeating the same scene last week, now with male protagonists, a video perpetrated attacks by several teenagers to another, occurred in Almada, in November last year and has only just been released.
That video so that was released last week became viral with thousands of shares and millions of views, having caused a huge wave of shock across the population, by the high level of aggressiveness reason, we all had opportunity to witness, countless times, until exhaustion, All TV news, including prime time, and been called all the experts for comment, as well as direct and indirect participants of the occurrence.
However the information disclosed, we know that the mother of this adolescent, who was the victim of violent attacks, in a public place and pedestrian traffic, He denounced the situation will place PSP, which in turn communicated the facts to DIAP Almada, through their criminal participation, We saw the same, be opened again wound, with the dissemination of images, contributing to the continuation of aggression, Now in the form of ciberbullying. In principle I am against the dissemination of such videos because they are intended to humiliate and ridicule the victim, why the attacks only start after beginning the recordings. But in this case, taking into account, that their disclosure led to performing a series of steps by the authorities, which surprisingly had not yet been made, namely the addition of the video to process, as evidence, the questioning of the victim and the communication to the local CPCJ, checking up so that any inconvenience was offset by the fact of having given speed research.
Can therefore at the end of the investigation, at least one of the perpetrators be held criminally responsible for being attributable and can be applied to him a prison sentence, being applied to other educational measures, By having less than 16 year old, whose most onerous measure may be the institutionalization of appropriate reintegration of establishment. Be sure all held accountable for their acts, but with different sentences, taking into account the different levels of accountability.
Unfortunately as mentioned, this situation is not new and prove it is the news of the Sunday Morning Post that reports of a "Minor stabbed in the lung at the behest of ex-girlfriend"In Feijó, also municipality of Almada, taking the victim was assaulted by a group of 20 other teens, an alleged ambush by ex-girlfriend.
Still on aggression among adolescents, this time those that occurred on 18 August last year in Ponte de Sor, where suspects are the sons of the Iraqi Ambassador, whom the Portuguese state requested the waiver of diplomatic immunity, so that the same defendants consisting, it was learned also last week, that or "Iraq postpones decision on waiver of immunity", as part TVI24, do dia 6 January.
On the subject of school violence, the public in its edition of 6 January did cover with the title "There are reports on school violence from 2013", being the subject developed in the article "Authorities recorded more crimes in the school environment", citing that the Ministry of Education states that "unknown the reasons why there were no reports in the two previous years"And that"the School Safety Office was never extinct but was no director since July 2015. The new director Alexandra Martins took office in November 2016", having this issue been addressed here at the end of last year, in our article "Monitoring and Coordination Office". Also in its issue of the day 6 January, the Daily News highlights the issue of violence in the school environment in the article "There 616 crimes per month in Portuguese schools", where it is stated that under the Safe School Program were recorded by the GNR and PSP a total of 4.757 occurrences, being that "Most cases occur in the interior space of the school, especially in the playground".
End to address security issues or the lack of it, linked to professional football, namely the security reinforcement implemented by PSP, the referees of the 1st League, SIC as part News 6 de Janeiro called "Referees with enhanced security", that what we know is materialized in the delivery of a phone number to the referees, for binding if necessary, whose measure should be extended to other professions, so that there is a feeling of discrimination, unknowing is however the GNR adopted the same procedure, namely the referee our countryman, we advise to react to adversity, considers them as contingencies function and continue forward.
