The head of the GNR's nature protection service gave the figures in Vila Pouca de Aguiar on Friday. Burning agricultural and forest residues is still the biggest identified cause, most suspects are men in their fifties, and 19 percent of those detained are women.
The ASPP set a six-week programme of petitions and demonstrations, with Porto on 24 September, Leiria on 1 October, Lisbon on 8 October and Faro on 14 October. Separately, seven GNR and PSP bodies that never signed the 2024 risk-supplement deal gave Luis Neves one week to meet them.
The force logged 8,856 alcohol-related road crimes between January and July, an average of 1,265 a month. The heaviest age band is 51 to 64, the risk peaks between midnight and 06:00 at weekends, and four districts account for the bulk of it.
How to report a crime in Portugal: where to go, the online complaint portal, the six-month deadline, your right to an interpreter, and claiming damages.
The Guarda Nacional Republicana (National Republican Guard — GNR) closed nine residences that had been operating illegally as lares de idosos (elderly-care homes) in Lousada, in the Porto district, on Tuesday and detained seven people, the force...
GNR's NIAVE Penafiel team executed a domestic-violence warrant in Paredes on Friday 12 June 2026 and seized 30 firearms and 2,803 rounds from a 45-year-old licensed holder. The 35-year-old victim had already left with the two minor children, now in CPCJ care.
Ministério da Administração Interna's June 9 release of the Operação Portugal Sempre Seguro tape posts 2,527 foreign-national documentation checks across 1–7 June, 3.24× the March round, with 76 detentions, 111 road and drug crimes and 41 undocumented findings.
