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On 11^th January at 1100 hrs the PSP Metropolitan Command of Lisbon, through the Police Division of Sintra, in the Parishes of Massamá and Monte Abraão, arrested, a  22 year old man, suspected of committing the crimes of false employment fraud and Theft in Residence.

The PSP, who is supporting a couple of citizens who are particularly vulnerable on account of their age (87 and 80 years old), informed the PSP that they had been the victim of a theft of money following visits by a suspect who claimed to be an employee of an energy distribution network.

From the measures taken it was possible to verify that a new visit of the said suspect to the residence of the couple was scheduled for a supposed “technical inspection”. The PSP  Massamá then monitored the visit and evaluate properly the events.

In the house, the patient was then arrested, using an employee identification card and a vesting device to conduct the new “technical inspection”, this time in the presence of the police.

It should be noted that the suspect also presented a card from a company providing services to the electricity distribution network operator. However it was found by the PSP that there was no record of any intervention or official visit of the company to that residence.

The detainee said that he had acquired goods with the money stolen, and a home search was launched at his residence, where items were recovered: a Mobile phone; a Laptop; a Smartwatch; and a pair of tennis shoes.

The detainee appeared before the Judicial Court of the District of Lisbon West, Sintra Nucleus for first judicial interrogation, and the measure of coercion and preventive custody.

The Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo recommended special care to Social Security institutions, nursing homes and continuing care units regarding the cold wave.

The Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (ARSLVT), through the Department of Public Health, recommends strengthening preventive measures, taking into account the predictions of a cold wave with the possibility of negative temperatures and that should extend For a week (according to forecasts of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere – IPMA).

ARSLVT recommends the population to stay protected from the cold, avoiding intense physical exertion outdoors

“The ARSLVT also warns the entire population about the convenience of taking basic measures of prevention and protection of health,” reads a statement released Friday, in which reminds that in case of need people should call the line Health 24 (808242424) or go to the nearest health center, avoiding hospital emergencies.

Warning for the health consequences of exposure to severe cold, particularly for several consecutive days, ARSLVT recommends the population to stay protected from the cold, especially if they have any health problems, avoiding intense physical exertion outdoors.

Attention to ventilation in the case of the use of fireplaces, braziers, salamanders or gas heating equipment

In the communiqué, it is recommended that house temperatures be maintained between 18 and 21 degrees, that attention should be paid to ventilation in the case of the use of fireplaces, braziers, salamanders or gas-fired heating equipment, if several layers of More frequent and hot meals.

The forecasts of the IPMA point to very low temperatures during the whole next week that in some days can oscillate between the two and the 10 degrees in the region of Lisbon. In regions such as Bragança, temperatures can drop to minus five degrees, with two negative degrees already on Saturday.

Complaints by health professionals who are  victims of violence in the workplace are rising. According to the report of the Directorate-General for Health, in 2015 there were 582 notifications, 9.6% more than in the previous year. In 51 cases there was a complaint made to the police. The main targets of aggression were mainly nurses and doctors: most of the situations are discrimination / threat, insults and moral pressure. The perpetrators are mainly ill, but there are also situations in which other health professionals are involved.

According to areport in the Diaro de Noticias (DN) the number of online notifications that have reached the Directorate General of Health (DGS) has increased since 2007, but the great jump was from 2013 to 2014, when the number of complaints more than doubled. The trend, shows the new report Violence Against Health Professionals, was kept in 2015 . “However, it is impossible to distinguish whether there are more notifications of this type of incident because the professionals are more alert to the notification or if there are more cases of Violence, “the DGS points out in the document.

From the analysis it is possible to conclude that most of the violence happens in the public services, more in the hospitals, soon followed of the health centres. In 551 reports, there was identification of where the aggression occurred. First are external consultations, followed by emergencies, adult medicine services, psychiatric internment, care services, and administrative services.

According to the 2015 data, the perpetrators are mostly patients (307), family members of patients (129), health care workers at the health unit (109) and patients’ caregivers (19). As for the sex of the aggressor, there are no great differences between men and women. And except for all the others serve them where the sick are the main offenders, but hospital consultations “predominate health care unit health workers as aggressors,” the report says.

As for the victims of aggression, the vast majority (309) are nurses, followed by doctors (145). And how did they manage the situation? They asked for treatment, were temporarily absent from the service, received support, reported an accident at work and gave rise to an investigation. It should be noted that “423 reports indicate that violence is common in the health unit” and “346 report that the episode of violence could have been prevented.” The same notification may refer to both cases, which is why the sum is higher than the total number of notifications.

The DN reports that Guadalupe Simões of the Portuguese Nurses’ Union (SEP) believes that the number of notifications registered in the DGS does not reflect what is happening in reality and it is not surprising that nurses are the main targets of violence. “Waiting times are long, there is a shortage of material as we have denounced, nurses are few in services, they are the first to receive people. In 2015 it is good not to forget that people’s economic conditions were different, the perspective of the future Was smaller, cuts in health were substantial. People were already tense and there were also, “he says.

The union also receives complaints of aggressions such as that of a nurse who was assaulted in a health center by a user who wanted to receive methadone. “There is a mix of revolt and some blame on the victim,” says Guadalupe Simões, who also speaks of violence among professionals. “For us to withdraw rights to force a child to not have flexible hours because of younger children is an assault. In some family health facilities there is pressure for nurses to do 40 hours when the time is 35. It generates tension among colleagues and that too Reflected in care. “

According to a report in the Jornel de Noticias, the National Medical Emergency Institute (INEM) received more than 1.3 million emergency calls in 2016, which resulted in the activation of more than 1.2 million emergency responses, such as ambulances, motorcycles or helicopters.

According to a note note from the Ministry of Health, INEM received in 2016 more 67,391 calls than in the previous year.

The calls made to the European Emergency Number (112) are answered by the PSP and GNR, which sends them to the INU Urgent Patient Advice Centers (CODU) whenever the reason for the call is related to emergencies or medical emergencies.

In this medical center of the INEM, the professionals “evaluate all the requests for help received, with the objective of determining the necessary and adequate resources for each occurrence”, recalls the note of the institute.

In 2016, the service of the more than 1.3 million emergency calls gave rise to the activation of almost 1.29 million means of emergency, among the different types of ambulance (emergency medical, relief, immediate support of life, Pediatric hospital), emergency bikes, emergency medical and resuscitation vehicles and helicopters.

The institute explained that the means are selected based on the clinical situation of the victims, the proximity of the place of occurrence and the accessibility to the place of occurrence.

Paulo Rebelo, INEM operator, underlines the importance of whoever calls for INEM to say “in a simple and clear way” the exact location and, whenever possible, with indication of reference points, the telephone number you are calling, the type of situation (illness, accident, childbirth), the number, sex and apparent age of the persons needing help and the main complaints and the changes they observe.

“The questions asked by CODU professionals are very important for INEM to act, since they aim to determine the severity of the emergency and the most appropriate means of relief to respond to the situation in question,” he said.

Source Lusa: One of four detained by the GNR in an operation carried out in Alto Minho is accused of carrying out at least 23 thefts from homes.

The arrested man “is heavily accused of carrying out 23 burglaries to homes, but could be responsible for another two dozen assaults carried out in the last two months, in the districts of Viana do Castelo and Braga, namely in the municipality of Barcelos,” said a source from the GNR territorial command in Viana do Castelo.

The man, who at the time of the crimes lived in Vila Praia de Âncora, in the municipality of Caminha, was approached on 12^th January in Vila Nova de Cerveira. After searches carried out at that residence, the police force managed to recover “several stolen objects”.

The investigation of this case, which in total included nine searches, four domiciliary and five non-domiciliary in several locations in the Alto Minho, allowed GNR to hold three more men, one of them indicted for drug trafficking, having seized more than 140 doses of drugs .

The alleged trafficker, also living in the municipality of Caminha, was detained on Wednesday, “during the preparation of the operation that culminated in the arrest of the suspected theft of the residence.”

The other two suspects were indicted in the context of the robbery of houses, indicted for illegal possession of weapons and released in the meantime.

The four suspects are between the ages of 26 and 39.

 

The two Algerians who fled Thursday afternoon from Lisbon airport, after jumping the fence, were picked up at dawn in Gare do Oriente by agents of the PSP’s criminal investigation department, the DN knows.

Speaking to Lusa, spokesman for the national command of the PSP, Hugo Palma, said that the two Algerians were detained in the Parque das Nações around 00:30.

“Following the flight, a criminal investigation team at the East gare terminal approached two individuals, requested identification and confirmed that it corresponded to the two individuals who had escaped from the airport.

The two men had fled when a group of five Algerians (four men and one woman) boarded a flight bound for Algiers and “managed to advoid the protection network at Lisbon airport,” said the statement from the PSP.

This is not the first time similar cases have occurred at Lisbon airport, involving Algerian citizens as well.

In October 2016, SEF and PSP prevented the flight of three passengers arriving at Lisbon airport on a flight from Morocco in an action that led to the arrest of six citizens of North Africa who were traveling on a flight from Casablanca, Morocco , To Algiers, the capital of Algeria, with a stopover in Lisbon.

The Judicial Police, through the Criminal Investigation Department of Aveiro, have  detained a 23-year-old unemployed man, accused of child pornography, by the collecting and sharing, through the Internet, files portraying children in explicit sexual practices.

The investigation came as part of the international fight against child pornography in conjunction with foreign authorities.

It was found that the suspect has been actively engaged in the dissemination of videos and pornographic images in which children, most of them young children, are victims of sexual abuse.

It used for this purpose, programs of file-sharing in an Internet portal that requires the registration of users, so that the contents are only available to those who have an access code.

The investigation will continue to determine the connection of its criminal activity with third parties engaged in similar practices.

Following a house search conducted at the suspect’s home in the municipality of Mealhada, a portable computer was seized, which stored thousands of pornographic multimedia files of minors, obtained through the abovementioned modus operandi.

The detainee was present to the Judicial Authorities competent for judicial interrogation, having been applied the coercion measures of weekly presentations at the police station of the area of ​​residence, prohibition of Internet access and obligation to undergo psychiatric medical treatment.

As of February 1, competing for GNR and PSP will have costs. According to a joint ordinance of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) published on 11^th January 2017, candidates for the security forces will have to pay a fee of 40 euros at the time of submitting their application.

This measure that, warns the specialist in Administrative Law Paulo Veiga and Moura, is “illegal, unconstitutional and disproportionate,”Source Jornel de Noticias

The Public Security Police (PSP) today 12th January 2017, detained a suspect in the shooting murder of a man in the parish of Monte, Funchal, said Comissario Fábio Castro.

The PSP said the suspect was detained in Largo da Fonte, in the parish of Monte, in Funchal, and offered no resistance.

The victim was the head of Monte’s Toboggan run, (a basket-driver, one of the island’s tourist attractions), who was shot in the wake of an argument with a colleague, said a source from the Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters, reported to the Dirias de Noticias.

“The police were rushed to the scene, the person who was on the spot was found inside the profile of the suspect and made his arrest,” he said.

The commissioner said that the case was transferred to the Judicial Police, adding that he did not know the reasons for the incident, nor how many shots were fired or what gun was used.

“The criminal investigation will be carried out by the Judicial Police,” he concluded.

The incident occurred at the beginning of the basket carriages on Mount, near Largo da Igreja.

The Diario de Noticias is reporting that a small family business suspected to have carried around 500 immigrants, mainly from France to Portugal, has been dismantled by French police, security forces announced today.

Last weekend, four people were detained in the Paris region for “helping the entry, movement and irregular stay of a foreigner in France.”

Police had learned in May 2016 that more than 20 people of irregular Indian or Pakistani origin were taken aboard a truck driven by a Frenchwoman of Portuguese origin from La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis, )on the outskirts of Paris) to Portugal.

The investigation revealed the “existence of a family structure that transited” immigrants from France to other Schengen countries, such as Spain and especially Portugal.

The organizer of this structure had as helpers his companion and his son to make the trips. The three were indicted and arrested, according to police.

According to the information obtained, the security forces believe that only between January and June 2016, 26 trips were made between France and Portugal. Last year, they estimate that it would have been approximately 60 trips in total, with 530 immigrants, to win about 132 thousand euros.