Minister assures that Portugal “has a greater police device than other countries” – Sociedade
The Minister of Internal Administration, José Luís Carneiro, will meet with the heads of the Public Security Police of Porto and Lisbon, to analyze the management of the workforce and the multipurpose infrastructures.
“There are more operations and they have had results on prevention”, said the minister that Portugal. “Our device is bigger than Paris and New York,” he added.
José Luís Carneiro said that one of the objectives is to invest in police equipment, as well as protection of “600 million euros”, for expenses.
“We have to look at the means we have around and understand how they can be efficient”, said the Minister of Internal Administration, noting that most importantly, and according to surveys, people want to feel safe when they are on the street: ” We want to create with people a feeling of security.”
“People want to see more police on the streets,” he said.
Regarding the strategies in the Porto and Lisbon areas, José Luís Carneiro said that they have been “working so that the answers are robust answers” and that they have “urban security in progress”.
The Minister of Internal Administration promised even more police on the streets and defended that there is a set of participations carried out in police stations that can be carried out in other structures, such as citizen shops or parish councils.
“There is a set of participations that today are made exclusively in police stations and that can be made in citizen’s shops, parish councils, because it has another level of proximity to the citizen. This makes it possible to fulfill what people want”, said José Luís Ram.
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