WOMEN IN SECURITY FORCES NEEDED
The next day 8 March, “International Women’s Day” is celebrated and therefore this article aims to address the issue of the low rate of feminization of the Security Forces (FS), after 53 years since the first women joined the Public Security Police (PSP) and 30 years since the same thing happened in the Republican National Guard (GNR), at a time when recruitment rates are the lowest ever.
FOR FEWER VICTIMS, LESS CRIMES
Sign up tomorrow, day 22 Feb., “European Day of Victims of Crime”, and just over a month before the publication of the Annual Homeland Security Report of 2023 (Perhaps 2023), it appears that probably the year of 2023 will have followed the upward trend in crime already seen in 2022.
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.