Month: April 2017

The Judiciary Police detained a couple on suspicion of computer fraud, counterfeiting credit cards and seized computer hardware, consoles, video games, watches, brand clothing, perfumes and about 10,000 euros in cash.

In a statement released on 6^th April 2017, the PJ said that the 29-year-old couple had been using “third-party bank card data” for more than a year, buying goods fraudulently and committing computer fraud and counterfeiting equivalent to a currency, amounting to 280,000 euros.

The investigation of the National Unit to Combat Cybercrime and Technological Crime began a year ago and was assisted by Paywatch, a fraud detection and prevention organization.

“The detainees made this practice their way of life, and after the acquisition of the goods, they resold both in the online market and at cash converters,” reads the note.

The Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) announced on 7^th April that it had seized about 5,000 liters of frozen goat’s milk for lack of traceability in the district of Viseu.

In a statement, ASAE explains that, on March 29, the specialized inspection brigade of the animal products industries of the Regional Unit of the Center carried out “an inspection action directed at a cheese-making industry in the district of Viseu “.

The objective was “to ensure compliance with the general food safety requirements”, he explained.

According to the ASAE, as a result of this action “a process of mismanagement was identified namely a lack of traceability of the milk. As a result they seized about five thousand liters of frozen goat’s milk, with a total value of around 3200 euros.”

ASAE guarantees that it will continue to develop surveillance actions throughout the national territory”.

The Tribunal de Penafiel sentenced a former bar owner for aiding prostitution, to pay money earned from prostitution to the State after having been calculated the difference between the declared income and his assets.

The former manager of a Lixa alternating house in Felgueiras was sentenced to pay 253,000 euros to the State, an amount that the Tribunal de Penafiel estimated to be derived from the practice of aiding prostitution and illegal immigration.

The owner was also sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment, suspended.

The Command Lisbon Metropolitan through No 2 Division from 15 March to 04 April, conducted various supervision visits to various dining establishments and bars resulting in identifying violation of existing rules on the licensing of these establishments and seizure of:

A machine of games of fortune or misfortune, and
A combination of machine gambling

In the same period 13 arrest warrants were exceuted.

In the context of the legal regime of weapons and ammunition, several licence holders were checked concerning the use and possession of weapons, were found which resulted in the seizure of:

Three Rifles,. 12 caliber. GA;
Three Pistols, caliber 6,35 mm.
Three Rifles, 9 mm;
A Revolver, caliber. 32;
A Flare Gun;
Twenty-Nine (29) Cartridges Caliber 12 GA;
Five ammunitions of caliber. 32.

The Regional Police of the Public Security Police of Madeira informs that the PSP Câmara de Lobos Division, conducted an operation on the north coast of the Island of Madeira, which culminated in the seizing of three long-barrelled firearms.

These comprised two shotguns, of 12mm calibre – being held not in accordance to the provisions of the legal regime of weapons and their ammunition.

Seized weapons and their components were deposited at the Command and Control Nucleus

The annual Relatório Anual de Segurança Interna (RASI), (Internal Security Report) (RASI), for 2016, approved on 31st March 2017 by the Assembly of the Republic, consolidates the figures of all police, and enforcement agencies, as well as other information concerning the state of internal security in Portugal.

The very good news is that the report reveals the lowest number of overall crime, especially violent crimes in the Algarve since 1998.

Overall crime in the Algarve for 2016, was 21,515 cases, a decrease of -1.5% compared to 2015. This continues the general decrease since 2008 when the total of crimes were reported stood at 29,248 (a 26.4% decrease). The rate of decrease has been greater than Portugal as a whole, where crime fell by 21.5% during the same period.

The highest crime in terms of numbers in the Algarve is drink driving which stood at 1804 cases, followed by burglary with break-in with 1508, cases; theft from motor vehicles 1469 cases; and minor assault 1425 cases.

In the overall categories of crime in the district, crime against persons stood at 4787 cases up 5.3% against last year and crimes against property 10.381 cases, down 2% compared to 2015.

Violent crime, which includes rape, homicide serious assault and robberies stood at 998 cases an increase of 5.2%.

Safe Communities Portugal has undertaken an analysis of the report and more detailed figures provided by Direção – Geral da Politica de Justiça, to determine the crime situation for Faro (Algarve) District and identify any noticeable crime trends.

These figures do not include non-reported crime, which has not been establish due to ab absence of crime victimization surveys in Portugal.

 

The full report in English can be downloaded here.