At the inauguration of the new Digital Forensic Laboratory of the Judicial Police (PJ), an investment of almost seven million euros, the national director of the PJ, Luís Neves, stated that this police force has three million euros allocated for wiretapping.
In his speech at the ceremony inauguration of the new expert laboratoryattended by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, the Minister of Justice, Rita Alarcão Júdice, and the Attorney General of the Republic, Amadeu Guerra, the national director of the PJ highlighted a path towards the modernization and increase of resources of this police force, and collaborative work with other criminal police forces (OPC) and security forces.
“More than 50% of the PJ’s expert activity is carried out at the request of other judicial authorities and the OPC” and the PJ maintains “a system of telephone interceptions, to which we allocate around three million euros,” said Luís Neves.
According to the former Attorney General of the Republic, Lucília Gago, In a parliamentary hearing in September, around 11 thousand wiretaps were carried out in 2023.
Luís Neves highlighted that from 2018 to 2025 the PJ will have tripled the number of experts in the technological and IT area, a “critical area”, whose lack of resources was “in part the biggest obstacle to the rapid development of the most advanced research.” complex.” ”.
He also defined how objective “to invest and strengthen the means” in the recovery of assets, “that allow the rapid detection and seizure of assets”even for situations of widespread loss of assets, one of the most notable aspects of the current Government’s anti-corruption agenda.
According to data provided by the national director of the PJ, “between 2018 and 2024 there were almost 280 million assets seized and seized” and “More than one billion euros in suspicious transactions were reported by the Financial Information Unit to the DCIAP”.
Luís Neves highlighted the fight against corruption and economic and financial crimes as “top priority and concern,” which justifies the “The largest investment that the PJ has made in this area”also standing out among the threats and priorities of this police cybercrime “which has become a constant” in an increasingly digital society and the “gradual and significant increase in hate speech,” a “catalyst of violent behavior.”
“In Portugal, as is the case in many other countries, especially European ones, drug trafficking is once again one of the main areas of organized crime with important relevance in violent crimes and corruption,” he also stated.
Source: Observadora
