Opinion (Rogério COPETO / Official GNR): DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITHOUT STATISTICS AND ROAD ACCIDENTS WITH BAD STATISTICS.
We would like to start the year 2018 with good news, but on the issues indicated title, we find that the new year begins without statistics on crimes of domestic violence (CEO) participated in 2016 and that statistics on road accidents in 2017 are the worst in recent years.
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
With respect to VD we waited until the end of 2017 the publication of the "Report of the Domestic Violence Monitoring Annual - 2016", the General Secretariat of the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (SGMAI), what did not happen, the beginning of the year 2018, without knowing the statistics of VD occurrences relating to 2016, reported to the GNR and PSP and inserted in the Domestic Violence Database (PDVD).
The last annual report was published on VD 29 December 2016 by SGMAI, for the year 2015, entitled "Annual Report Monitoring – Domestic Violence – 2015", verifying that the year 2015, GNR and PSP registered 26.815 crimes de VD, concluding that compared with 2014 They were reported less 502 crimes, a decrease of -1,8%.
But despite not having been published the "Report of the Domestic Violence Monitoring Annual - 2016", We found that in a consulting "Homeland Security Annual Report 2016" (Perhaps 2016), pages 34 et seq, the VD crimes in 2016 increased by 508 crimes de VD, compared with the year 2015, increasing 26.783 in 2015, to 27291 in 2016, representing an increase of 1,9%. But this increase in RV 2016 It might not be the real, because this value would only be known at the time of disclosure of the "Annual Report of the Domestic Violence Monitoring – 2016".
The knowledge of the criminal activities of certain criminal phenomenon is essential for knowledge of the phenomenon itself and for the definition of preventive measures and combating it, therefore start the year 2018 without knowing the actual number of crimes VD participated by GNR and the PSP 2016, is an obstacle to prevention and control of RV in Portugal.
After in 2013 and 2014 the RV crimes have recorded similar numbers, respectively 27.318 and 27.317, in the year of 2015 down to the 26.815, having increased in the year 2016 to 27.291, checking up so after a year of decline, RV went up again, knowing is however that the trend for the year 2017, However despite the indicators that were being known, notably through article Observer 7 July 2017 with the title "Almost 6.000 surveys for domestic violence in the first half", that realizes that the District Attorney Lisbon received 5.924 processes VD no 1st semester 2017, that were joining 4.991 processes carried over from 2016. And in Article Economic Journal 20 November with the title "Number of victims of domestic violence 2017 It is the lowest of the last 14 year old", we learned that "Eighteen women were killed and 23 They were victims of attempted murder in 2017, year that has the lowest incidence rate of the last 14 years recorded by the Observatory of Murdered Women (OMA)".
No official data from the entities whose liability prepare semi-annual and annual reports on VD, we can only wait for the publication of RASI 2017, what will happen only in April 2018.
On the subject of road accidents, which in these days of beginning of year, It is one of the topics most covered by the media, easily conclude that unlike the RV where there are no statistics on the year 2016 no 2017, statistics on road accidents abound and are not good. For the year 2017 It ended with an increase in fatalities as a result of road accident, as may be seen in several articles broadcast by the media as the example I extensive article 4 January titled "2017: an unwelcome rise ", which state that "Traffic deaths dropped significantly in the country in decades. Trend reversed in 2017 mainly due to accidents involving motorcycles. Parliament yesterday approved, unanimously, Hearing of Minister of Internal Affairs to discuss claims. Industry advocates concrete changes: more training for motorcyclists or a review by the letter points are some of the proposals".
About the fact that the increase in fatalities in 2017 It has been at the expense of the increase of the dead as a result of motorcycle accidents, the Daily News had the opportunity to address the issue in its article 3 January with the title "Good time, economy and speed explain more accidents with bikes", at where "José Miguel Trigoso, It shows cautious in evaluating, noting that the law is 2009 and there is a large time lapse” e “researcher at the Higher Technical Institute, João Dias also rejects this explanation: 'Although Motorcycle sales with engine capacity below 125 ter cc represented from 2010 about two-thirds of sales, the severity of accidents involving this type of motorcycles is much lower than the other '".
That I the article also discusses the increase in deaths as a result of motorcycle accidents, Remembering that "The National Road Safety Strategic Plan (THOUGHT) 2010, the National Road Safety Authority, it is stated that 'the two-wheelers and motor, most notably, motorcycles are those with, over the period, risk indicators more onerous'. Among the measures that the institution is committed to developing 2020 are the study of enlargement of safety equipment required on motorcycles and mopeds, a more intense scrutiny by the GNR and PSP and awareness campaigns", suggesting why we start with awareness, similar to what has been done in recent years to the users of bicycles, also increased significantly.
Still not certain numbers we know however that "More than 500 people died on Portuguese roads in 2017", as he realized the Daily News in its edition of 4 January, stating that "More than 500 people died last year on Portuguese roads, according to the National Road Safety Authority (Mor), which also indicate an increase in road accidents and serious injuries in relation to 2016".
So, we desire in 2018 VD know the statistics for the years 2016 and 2017 and the statistics of road accidents are better than in 2017, that for being so bad, It will not be very difficult.
