Year: 2014

From midnight last night to midnight on 20th April 2014 the GNR will be conducting an operation to promote and enforce safe driving over the Easter holidays. This will take place throughout the country including the Algarve.

The operation will focus on non-compliance with traffic rules plus, use of seat belts, use of mobile phones and drink driving. Road checks will be increased so please pass on so your friends are aware of this.

Drive safely this Easter and reduce accidents over the holiday period.

On the afternoon of 15th April 2014, GNR Loulé arrested a citizen aged 27 years for the crime of drug trafficking .

Following an action to combat drug trafficking in the town of Almancil, the GNR located the individual in question, inside a vehicle.

After assessing the situation, the GNR intercepted the suspect in the act of selling the narcotic product inside the vehicle. The GNR were also able to identify the consumers involved.

In intercepting the suspect, 70 individual doses heroin, plus a precision scale, two phones and € 165 euros in cash were seized.

In a follow up operation at the arrested person’s house a further 720 individual doses of heroin and 5 individual doses cocaine and related packing for the  distribution of narcotic products were seized.

The detainee is to appear at the Judicial District Court of Loulé for application to be remanded in custody.

It was reported on 12th April 2014 that around a number of burglaries have taken place in the last few weeks in the area of Ferrerias near Albufeira.

In the latest of these a property was broken into a short while after the owner had left the property and stole gold watches, some cash, a computer monitor and a camera. The owner in an interview with local media stated that he felt that the property was being watched beforehand so the culprit knew when the house was unoccupied.

The GNR are investigating around 5 other similar cases in the area with an apparent similar modus operandi.

The Judicial Police (DIC Portimao) reported that they have arrested a man for the commission of a murder which took place on 25th March 2014, in Lagoa.

The murder took place following a dispute with the victim financial issues related to running a business . The alleged perpetrator strangled the victim aged 65 years, thus causing her death.

After the crime , the defendant left the scene and reported to a third party that the victim had died as a result of heart disease.

The detainee aged 54 years appeared at the judicial authorities for him to report daily to the local police station pending trial.

On 8th April in the early hours of the morning the Criminal Investigation Detachment of GNR conducted an operation involving the execution of a search warrant at a residence located in Quarteira.

The operation, which was a culmination of a 3 month investigation, resulted in the arrest of a Portuguese citizen aged 43 years, suspected to be responsible for some 15 burglaries.
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The arrested person is considered responsible for burglaries that had occurred in residences mostly in Almancil, Quarteira and Vilamoura, stealing easily saleable items such as televisions, home appliances and also articles on non-precious metal such as taps and copper objects.

The detainee, who also has a criminal record for theft, was presented on 9th April at the Judicial District Court of Loulé. He was on probation from the Regional prison in Olhão.

Safe Communities Algarve is organizing with the GNR and PSP a number of crime prevention displays over the Easter holiday. The aim of the displays is to enhance awareness of the type of crime that maybe occur during the holiday season and simple steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of becoming a victim of crime. The crime level in the Algarve is low compared with many holiday destinations and the displays are therefore aimed at making the Algarve an even safer place to live and visit.

The GNR cover the rural areas of the Algarve including the medium sized towns whereas the PSP are responsible for the larger cities including Faro and Portimão. The details of the events at the time of going to press are:

16th April – Praia da Luz – this display will be held from 1000 to 1400 hrs in conjunction with the GNR, at the Spa Supermarket. We welcome all visitors to the stand where the GNR Portimão Safe Residence Programme team will be on hand to explain the SRP programme, register those who wish to join and learn more about crime prevention advice.

17th April – Praia da Rocha – this display will be held from 1000 to 1200 hrs and 1400 to 1600 hrs at the PSP Tourist police post at the beach front at Praia da Rocha. We welcome all visitors both residents and tourists to learn more about the work of the PSP in this busy tourist area as well as the supplementary responsibilities of Safe Communities Algarve.

19th April – Algarve Shopping Centre near Guia from 1400 to 2000 hrs. The theme of this display being held in collaboration with GNR Albufeira and other GNR specialist units is “Safe Families Day”. The aim is to promote crime prevention awareness both for adults and younger people. The display stand will be close to the west entrance to Continente Supermarket and will have a family theme. There will be special surprises for children and we invite all families to visit the stand.

We welcome as many people as possible to visit the displays. Please check with the Safe Communities Algarve website www.safecommunitiesalgarve.com – News page for any changes to the programmes closer to the dates.

 

The Judicial Police (South) reported on 7th April that they had identified and arrested a man suspected of committing a crime of aggravated fraud amounting to over € 1 million euros.

Since 2001, the defendant working in a  bank in Loulé, wrote false cheques of customers of the bank and deposited them in his account.

The detainee age 52-year-old has appeared in court and has been prohibited from leaving the country and his passport seized.

The BBC has obtained two confidential documents alleging police corruption by officers from the former Flying Squad.

The intelligence reports detail how officers were suspected of a conspiracy to kidnap and allegedly planned to hold a victim for a £50,000 ransom in the mid 1990s.

Sources claim the files were part of the mass shredding of documents at Scotland Yard in 2002.

The Metropolitan Police says it is confident it has intelligence on all the officers named in the reports.

BBC London’s Glen Campbell spoke to former former Metropolitan Police officer Brian Paddick and Alistair Morgan, whose brother Daniel, it is claimed, was planning to expose police corruption but was murdered in 1987. More details at

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26874903

 

 

 

The PSP have reported that the Loures Police Division, PSP Metropolitan Command PSP Lisbon,  following a 6 month investigation have arrested 3 men and  one woman aged between 28 and 58 years on suspicion of trafficking in drugs.

During the investigation arrests were made ​​in the municipalities of Odivelas and Amadora and included home searches conducted in the municipalities of Loures – Apelação e de Odivelas – Serra da Luz e Póvoa de Santo Adrião e ainda in the Council of Amadora. During the operation over several days at total of 14621.37 gms of suspected heroine, € 970 in cash, three vehicles and 10 mobile phones were seized.

The amount of heroine seized equates to about 175,600 individual doses and upon being adulterated, cut and placed on the “market” could be valued at about € 500,000.

With the arrests that have already been made and the consequent dismantling of what the PSP are sure to be a criminal network that supplied the region of “Greater Lisbon”, they believe this is a blow to the trafficking of “heroin” in the region

 

The detainees, all with criminal records, will today present the first court hearing in the Judicial Court of Loures.

At 11.15 hrs on 31st March 2014 the PSP Division Loures of the Metropolitan PSP  Command Lisbon, arrested  in  Sacavém, Loures, a man and a woman, aged 48 and 34 years respectively, on suspicion of carrying out more than 30 burglaries and scams mainly in the metropolitan area of ​​Lisbon.

The preliminary investigation revealed that the man approached the victims, preferably the elderly, offering them a box of watches supposed to be of “great value”, in exchange for gold.

They then made use of a cream  placed in the hands of the victims, to pull gold rings of the fingers of the victims before fleeing in a vehicle.

Following the arrests, house searches were conducted in the area of Loures and Crato – Portalegre, resulting in the location and seizure of 3 cars, several pieces of gold valued at about € 6.000,  2 mobile phones and other items, suspected to be stolen.

Both detainees who have criminal records, were presented at the Judicial Court of Loures for application to be held in remand pending trial.