Opinion (Rogério COPETO / Official GNR): INTERNET AND CARNIVAL BOMBINHAS.
The awareness of Internet safety and monitoring the use of firecrackers are carnival reason for performing two operations the responsibility of GNR, arising from this and next week.
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 first Operation It begins today and will end on Friday, with the aim of achieving sensitization activities, with the school community, on the need to prevent risk behaviors inherent in the use of internet, by reason of the celebration of "Safer Internet Day", which marks the next day 9 Feb..
This operation has a partnership with the microsoft Portugal, which together with the GNR promote the first day of operation an inaugural session at the School of the Guard, by 10:00 hours, They are expected to have some 360 children and 120 seniors, the municipalities of Lisbon and Sintra, still being carried out throughout the operation hundreds of other awareness-raising, where the themes will be addressed cyberbullying, Identity theft, privacy, the incorrectness of information sources, computer viruses and Internet addiction.
The importance of this type of action is increasing, bearing in mind that our children, early start surfing the internet and expose themselves to the dangers of internet too, no notion of the possible consequences of misuse and adults do not yet have the expertise, for proper supervision of children and adolescents.
For that reason, this issue has already been discussed earlier, particularly in articles called "Online predators” e “Cyberbullying and social networks", Its main concern alert adults to the need to promote proper safety education on the Internet, shall establish rules, accompany children and young people, be aware of the signs and tell authorities where the facts can typify a type of crime, as above, whose effects the physical and psychological traumas, than later or never be exceeded and that only prevention can avoid.
The second operation will take place between 8 and 10 February during school holidays Carnival, having the GNR scheduled for this time to conduct targeted awareness-raising for students, parents and teachers, about the dangers of the use of so-called carnival firecrackers, still performing simultaneous enforcement actions directed to effecting trades sale of such articles, whose sale is prohibited to minors 18 year old, and their use or improper sale, sanctioned by a fine, can in the most serious situations are typified as a crime.
All of these items termed as "Carnival firecrackers", "Throwing bombs", "Firecrackers", "Snaps" or "queers-de-rabear", are pyrotechnics and so are not toys, but real explosives which can cause serious accidents, especially in children and young.
For this reason the GNR will in the context of awareness-raising repeat once again the important advices, through the military affects the Safe School Centers, which not infrequently initiatives are accompanied by the Media, reports the example being, whose links here include, the second being quite informative report of the consequences of using this type of pyrotechnics: 1ªreportagem; 2ªreportagem.
We believe that as a result of these operations our children and young people will surely like best knowledge about the dangers of the Internet and Carnival firecrackers, not being the first less serious than the second and all of them deserve special attention from the GNR, that once again, this year repeats the advice, They are never too much to remember.
