The Government has announced increased funding for the GNR and PSP over the next 5 years.
Between 2017 and 2021, a total of Euros 8,5 will be spent on weapons; 104.9 million on upgrading buildings and 60.9 million for vehicles.
The GNR will receive 77.3 million of these funds and the PSP 90 million.
This is part of a package of and additional Euros 450 million to upgrade the security forces announced by the Prime Minister Antonio Coasta earlier.
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- Parliament approves: throwing cigarette buts on the ground will result in a fine
- Thirty Six persons tried for ATM explosions and money laundering
- Portugal regains 3rd place as world’s most peaceful country.
- Training for the security forces for appropriate intervention with LGBTI people
- AGIF considers that Portugal remains “very vulnerable to the risk of fires”
- More dead and injured in road accidents in the first five months of the year
- President of Assembly of Republic proposes to dedicate June 17 as National Day in Memory of Victims of Fires
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- US State Department begins social media screening for nearly all visa applications.
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- Portugal Civil Protection Exercise Cascade 2019
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- Comunicado Conjunto do Ministério da Administração Interna e do Ministério da Agricultura, Florestas e Desenvolvimento Rural
- Portugal Mainland placed on Rural Fire Alert
