Year: 2017

On 27th February in the afternoon a tourist, of German nationality fell the Vereda dos Salgados, in Camacha. He was rescued and is well.

According to a source from the Municipal Fire Department of Santa Cruz, the man fell from a considerable height but was suspended on a tree trunk, having been rescued by two people, with the aid of a rope, before the arrival of the firemen.

The man was conscious and alert, with bruises on his arms and knees. He refused to be transported to the Hospital Dr. Nélio Mendonça, and continued the rest of the walk.

 

A lawyer living in Braga was arrested on Monday when she took drugs, syringes and other prohibited objects to a client who was imprisoned in the Vale do Sousa prison.

Manuela Alves was arrested in flagrante delicto by the Nucleus of Criminal Investigation of GNR of Felgueiras. In her possession she had 100 grams of hashish, syringes and accessories for mobile phones.

The Vale do Sousa regional prison is considered to be highly secure

The GNR detained this Monday two men near Campo Maior, in the district of Portalegre, suspected of having stolen a light goods vehicle, belonging to the municipality of Mogadouro.

According to a source from the GNR, the detention of 47- and 61-year-old men and the recovery of the stolen vehicle was carried out by soldiers of the Campo Maior Territorial Post during a road inspection this Monday morning at Estrada Nacional 373, From Portalegre to Campo Maior.

The vehicle of the municipality of Mogadouro, in the district of Bragança, was stolen during the dawn of today, said the GNR source.

The two men, according to the source of the Guard, who were later released, were subject to expiration of identity and residence.

During 2016 the PSP registered 4932 arrests and the GNR 4017 of people without a valid driving licence.

If you have become accustomed to thinking that the validity of the driving license is almost lifelong, it is best to go check the website of the Institute of Mobility and Transport. It is that the date on the back of your document may not be correct for the purpose of revalidation of the licence, since with the entry into force of a decree-law in 2016 the deadlines have changed significantly.

Last year, until October, according to the latest statistics, 906 people were imprisoned for the crime of driving without legal authorization. For the same reasons, and during the same period, the GNR detained 4017 drivers, while the PSP recorded 4932 arrests.

Since driving without legal authorization is a crime, detainees face a criminal process, which, in most cases, ends in the so-called summary process, a more expeditious form provided by law. Convictions can either be punishable by a fine – for example in the case of primary offenders – but can lead up to imprisonment for up to two years for repeat offenders.

The Law

Decree-Law 40/2016 of 29 July dictates new rules for holders of driving licenses issued or revalidated before 2 January 2013. These drivers – of categories AM, A1, A2, A, B1, B, BE , Mopeds and agricultural tractors – will have to revalidate the licence at the age of 50, without presenting a certificate. Then they revalidate again at 60 and 65 years, with presentation of medical certificate. At age 70, they will have to revalidate with a certificate and, from that age, revalidation happens every two years.

Drivers who are entitled to drive after January 2, 2013, will have to check the validity date of the certificate and renew it every 15 years until they reach the age of 60. When they reach this age, a medical examination is mandatory.

From January 1 of this year, just go to the website of the IMT (Institute of Mobility and Transport), register, fill your application, pay by ATM and receive at home your new driving license. It takes about two weeks. By placing your orders online you automatically have a 10% discount (instead of €30, pay €27), but one of the main savings is time. Often you had to miss a morning or afternoon just to deal with a relatively simple change or to issue a medical certificate. You can now scan the certificate and the process is progressing online.

The GNR Pinhel, found, on February 22, a 75-year-old Alzheimer’s patient living in Cótimos – Trancoso, missing since the previous day.

After the disappearance was reported, a total of 35 military personnel were deployed to the place where the searches were carried out during the entire period of the disappearance, resulting in the location of the elderly woman, about 5 km from her residence.

Although conscious, the elderly woman was disoriented, debilitated and hungry, so she was transported by INEM to the Trancoso Health Center.

The National Republican Guard (GNR), in partnership with the Portuguese technological group TEKEVER, will test tomorrow, February 23, in Barreiro, at 09:00 hours, the utility of social networks in the response of public security authorities dealing with emergency  situations.

The exercise, which will take place at the Business Park of Baía do Tejo in Lavradio – Barreiro, includes the simulation of an earthquake with several replicas and takes place within the framework of the European project “SOTERIA”

The GNR military on the ground will be called upon to intervene in several emergency situations, including:

• Aid to victims buried in debris after a factory collapses;
• Spillage of highly flammable products;
• Search and rescue of three victims of a road accident with a vehicle falling in a river.

The “SOTERIA” Project is part of the European Union’s research and development support projects. Its objective is to research, develop and present recommendations for emergency intervention and to design / develop a tool for social networks in emergency situations. This tool will enable public security-related organizations, from the point of view of safety and security, as well as citizens, to proactively use the new online mass media communication means to communicate before, during and after the occurrence of an emergency.

The aim is to encourage the two-way exchange of useful information between these organizations and citizens in the case of critical intervention in emergency situations, maintenance of public order and tranquillity, and medical care.

Civil Protection technicians from Alentejo and the Algarve met in Mértola on 15 February for a training course on the Spit Fire platform, a project aimed at improving the efficiency of fire prevention, preparedness and response actions In cross-border areas, between Portugal and Spain.

According to the Câmara de Mértola, “several entities from the districts of Beja and Faro participated in the course with the purpose of becoming compatible with this new work tool and defining joint strategies”.

Francisca Van Dunem and Constança Urbano de Sousa give clarification on the escape of Caxias and disappearance of weapons from the PSP, respectively

The parliament today approved the urgent hearing of Justice and Home Affairs ministers regarding the escape of three prisoners from the Caxias jail and the stealing of 50 weapons from the national headquarters of the PSP, respectively.

The requests were made by the PSD to the Committee on Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, which today approved Francisca Van Dunem’s hearing on the Sunday escape of three prisoners from the prison in Caxias and Constança Urbano de Sousa on the subject of the near theft of 50 weapons from the PSP’s national headquarters warehouse.

It was decided that the Minister’s explanations on the theft of Glock 9 mm weapons would be the first point of the hearing of Constancia Urbano de Sousa scheduled for March 7

One of the Chilean prisoners who fled the Caxias prison near Lisbon and were captured in Madrid was released because the Spanish authorities did not receive the European arrest warrant in time. The other Chilean was not only released by the Spanish police, because, after being identified, the authorities realised that he was wanted in Spain for crimes committed in this country.

The two 29-year-old and 30-year-old Chilean inmates who escaped from Caxias prison on 18^th February were detained at Madrid airport on the same day with fake passports.

A source linked to the case explained to Lusa that a delay in the sending and reception in Spain of the European arrest warrant (MDE) allowed one of the escaped Chileans to be released, a fact to which also contributes no vacancy in the Spanish detention center.

The same source admitted that there was a “delay” in sending the MDE, because otherwise the two Chileans were immediately detained. It remained to explain why one of the Chileans, despite presenting a false passport, was eventually released for lack of space in the local detention center.

The ministers of Internal Affairs and Justice confirmed Monday the arrest in Madrid of one of three prisoners evicted from the prison in Caxias, adding that the detainee, a Chilean national, “is in the custody of the Spanish authorities.”

“As soon as the three detainees were identified, the Portuguese authorities exchanged the necessary information not only with each other, but also within the framework of international police cooperation mechanisms, and actions were still ongoing in judicial cooperation International level, “the statement said.

The Ministry of Justice confirmed to Diario de Noticais on 19^th feb that two arrest warrants were issued and referred any further doubts to the statement from the Ministries of Internal Administration and Justice.

The Attorney General’s Office, in turn, told the DN that “all the procedures provided by law, including the issuance of the respective arrest warrants, have been followed.”

The two Chileans fled early on 18^th Feb in the morning from the cell where they were detained, along with a Luso-Israeli prisoner. The three men, awaiting trial in pre-trial detention, fled after having strapped the bars of the cell with metal wire and cut the fence of the prison. Source Diario de Noticais

The genetic DNA database was created seven years ago. If all defendants sentenced to more than three years in prison were on the platform, they would already have 42,000 profile samples. But there are only 6000 according to  Diario de Noticais.

The DNA database, created in 2010 to help investigate unresolved crimes, currently has 8398 samples and of those just over 6000 are of convicted, advances today’s edition of the newspaper Público. The new president of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Francisco Côrte Real, criticized the fact that the insertion of data in the database currently depends on the decision of each judge and argues that it is necessary to automate this process to be more successful.

“In the case of the convicted, we have the assumption of having an order of the judge. There are magistrates who understand that the profile must be integrated in the base and others that do not.  Therefore we have a number below what could exist today and what exists In most European databases, “Francisco Côrte Real told Público.

The supervisory board of the DNA Profiles Database has already submitted to Parliament a proposal to revise the law that created this platform. If the proposal is accepted, the samples of those sentenced will automatically go to the database.