CRIME REDUCTION TEAMS
“Crime Reduction Teams” are specialized non-uniformed police units with the mission of carrying out arrests in the act of committing crimes., whose main objective is to reduce crime, these teams being distinct from criminal investigation teams, which, under the supervision of the Public Prosecutor's Office, have as their main mission the preparation of investigation processes.
VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT
The year 2023 ended up with 30.279 domestic violence crimes (CEO) reported to the GNR and PSP according to the Domestic Violence Portal under the responsibility of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG), where death resulted from 17 women, three men and two children.
THE SERGEANT
Today is marked 31 January is “National Sergeant’s Day”, which had its origins in the republican revolt in the city of Porto that occurred on the 31 January 1891, event that was the precursor to the establishment of the Republic and the first revolutionary expression of the republican movement that would emerge victorious 19 years later, in 5 October 1910.
PREDICT CRIMES – PART II
After having defined the concepts inherent to Predictive Policing in the first part of the topic,, In this second part of the topic we will explain how this Policing model can be implemented in the Security Forces (FS), as well as its application in the prevention of accidents.
POLICING THAT PREDICTS CRIMES – PART I
The first time I wrote about the use of algorithms in crime prediction was in an article by 7 November 2018, with the title “Predictive Policing”, noting that after five years there is no project or program, that is public knowledge, in the Security Forces (FS).