PSP Mobile Service Unit has already toured Lisbon’s “emblematic places” – Observer
Starting this Thursday, the city of Lisbon will have a PSP Mobile Service Unit, a proximity police van, which will be in “flagship places” where there is a greater concentration of people, including nightlife areas.
He said it would increase proximity to citizens, providing the possibility of any objective only for the Police, as well as information, which is not the unit”, Tiago Fernandes, Commissioner of the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of Public Security (PSP), in a presentation to journalists, without the presence of members of the Government or the Lisbon Chamber.
The beginning of the operation of this Mobile Service Unit in the city of Lisbon started at Praça do Comércio, with the installation of a PSP closed cabin van, in which a small room is set up inside, with a desk and accommodated to accommodate four people, two policemen and two citizens who need police help, with air conditioning and a small window on one side.
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In addition to two groups next to the vehicle, the unit has other PSP staff teams, indicated Tiago Fernandes, referring that this valence will “open day and night”with the population, “where there is a greater concentration of people depending on the time of day”.
This watertight unit, it does not vary according to time and space, it will not be fixed in Praça do Comércio, it is managed according to the needs of the PSP, adding that the idea is to be “an increase in police visibility”. with the people”.
Tiago Fernandes said that this PSP van will be “in emblematic places of the city of Lisbon: Praça do Comércio, Rossio, Largo de Camões, Cais do Sodré, Lisbon Port Belt, Largo Vitorino Damásio, Belém Tower, Lisbon Docks, therefore places where the tourist level is quite crowded“, but also aims to respond to people who for work reasons move to the capital.
At the moment, this Thursday is the only one in operation. It does not mean that it is the time management function of the other units, that is, with the function of being from the Lisbon metropolitan area, including one or three cars of the Lisbon management, including a management function of the other units, either with three Lisbon management cars, including one of which is a management function of other units, the other is already ready to go into operation if necessary.
The city of Porto also started this Thursday to have a PSP Mobile Service Unit on the streets.
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Asked about the novelty of this PSP valence, which has been in existence “since 2018” and which has been used in proximity projects, for example, together with bathing beaches and in major events such as the Rock festival at the time, Tiago Fernandes at the time the collection of all tourist activity, after two years of a pandemic, in which there is “a greater concentration of people now in the city of Lisbon”, noting that the unit also makes it possible to provide information to tourists.
If this is a response to the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas (PSD), he asked the Government and the most problematic areas, the PSP commissioner, “It is a virtuous necessity that will be used and that has the most problematic areas to be, it is another example of reinforcement that we use of proximity to the population and together, through fun, we have a great reinforcement that has not been reinforced”.
This unit is installed on Thursday when the city is located, thus reinforcing the specific needs of the people, being installed according to the people installed, when they are installed according to the city, when they are installed in the city’s farm, reinforce all police stations in compliance with specific and specific needs PSP vehicles continue to operate normally.
On the criticisms of the National Police of attendance, considered as units of the PSP are a police failed structurethat “does not follow the real security needs” and “consumes human resources in a disproportionate way and resolution”Tiago Fernandes stated that “these are resources that already have many police functions, they are resources that already have many proximity functions”explaining that “the only difference is that there is a mobile unit that at any time can be in one place as it can be in another”.