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Municipal Security Council assesses recent situations in Lisbon

The "shocking" images in the Alfredo Bensaúde neighborhood are of "great concern" to Lisbon residents, said Carlos Moedas at the end of this afternoon's meeting of the Municipal Security Council. The PSP, he said, will be more present and with more special crime prevention operations, on a permanent basis, in the coming months.

The mayor of Lisbon (CML), Carlos Moedas, convened the restricted Municipal Security Council (CMS), which brought together the commanders of Lisbon's Public Security Police (PSP) and Municipal Police (PM), and the deputy mayor, to assess "recent and sensitive" situations related to security in the city.

The recent images in the Alfredo Bensaúde neighborhood, "in which we see individuals with weapons of war, are unacceptable in our city," said the mayor. "What I brought here were, above all, questions to the PSP about what happened, but it gives me some peace of mind to know that the number of operations has increased."

The PSP, Carlos Moedas stressed, is increasing the number of operations to prevent this type of event, "more present and with more special crime prevention operations and they will be increased constantly".

CML, for its part, is present in the neighborhoods and "we are protecting these people, whether through community policing, proximity policing, which is done every day". But, he warned, "we have to give them guarantees".

For the mayor of Lisbon, the collection of this type of weapon is important: "how can we recover weapons that are illegal in our city, how can this be done, how can we have operations in which people can give their weapons to the police so that they can be collected and then destroyed".

In the end, Carlos Moedas left a warning to the government: "we need at least 500 more Public Security Police in Lisbon, we've lost more than a thousand in the last 10 years, so we need more PSP and I'm going to keep fighting for that".

We have "a great Public Security Police, a great Municipal Police, but we need more resources, we need more Police and I will never tire of asking the Central Government for this," he reiterated.

Security "is a function of the Central State", but the council has "helped" in various ways. In terms of housing, he revealed, "we've freed up another building today so that we can have houses for our police officers in Lisbon and we're going to free up another building. It's very important to give our Security Forces the conditions to live in our city, which is so difficult today."