The Government plans to invest around two million euros in vehicles “specifically intended for the proximity programs of the PSP and GNR”, specifically Escola Segura, the Minister of Interior Management announced on Tuesday.
In the opening session of a seminar organized by the Public Security Police on the 30 years of existence of the Escola Segura program in Portugal, José Luís Carneiro said that this program continues assume a “very relevant role that requires a permanent investmenteither in people, in their training, or in the work environment, with a view to improving the capacity for intervention”.
Within the scope of the Integrated Urban Safety Strategy, on which we have been working, and which will soon be put to public debate, the Escola Segura program will assume a special centrality. It is a new approach to urban security, based on the principles of prevention, proximity to the citizen, the promotion of local collaboration, a sense of opportunity for evaluation and intervention, and the need to promote integration and interconnection between the different intervention programs and instruments. about reality,” he explained.
In this sense, the minister announced that the specific training of the police assigned to proximity programs will be reinforced and that an investment of some two million euros is planned in vehicles specifically destined for proximity programs of the PSP and GNR, within the scope of programming. Investments in the modernization and operation of the security forces and services.
According to José Luís Carneiro, the PSP and the GNR committed, in the last school year, more than 700 police officers and guards, who carried out 35,808 awareness actions and 204 media demonstrations, in addition to thousands of hours dedicated to patrolling and monitoring the environment school spaces.
The governor mentioned that in the last academic year there was a decrease in criminal occurrenceswith the majority of participations in the school environment related to situations of injuries or threats and insults to physical integrity.
“Although the provisional crime figures in 2022, compared to 2019 -because the years 2020 and 2021 were atypical years, given the confinement- do not, in general, show worrying developments, it is about these crimes, which show greater violence, that Let’s focus our concern,” he said.
José Luís Carneiro realized that after the pandemic, “a tendency to the emergence of behaviors of greater conflict, especially among young people, who go to nightclubsTherefore, “careful analysis and reflection” is necessary.
“It is essential that we study and understand this problem. The different dimensions associated with violence, criminality and juvenile delinquency must be worked on in an integrated and sustained manner, so that we can understand, upstream, the problems and seek solutions and act on the causes”, he stressed.
As an example, the minister reported on the creation of the Commission for the Integrated Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency and Violent Crime, which has already submitted guidelines and recommendations to the Government and which will be included in the Integrated Urban Security Strategy.
Source: Observadora
