The Interior Ministry's procurement for town halls, parishes, civil protection, SIRESP and the GNR closed in July without a single offer. Suppliers called the price and deadlines unworkable, and the PRR funds were reassigned.
The ministry cites a reorganisation. Ricardo Carrilho had refused to sign off a 26 million euro payment to SIRESP without a written order, and has asked to see the prime minister.
Interior minister Luís Neves marked the ninth anniversary of the Pedrógão Grande wildfires by reaffirming a €40 million Fundo Ambiental (Environmental Fund) prevention envelope at a ceremony in the Leiria sub-region on Tuesday evening, the...
Interior Minister Luís Neves told Parliament on 17 June the PSP reorganisation under review in Lisbon, Porto and Setúbal redeploys ~500 agents to street patrol — no super-esquadras — and 360 extra officers reinforce airports from 3 July as the Rato torture probe accelerates the closure roadmap.
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.
Former Interior Minister Maria Lúcia Amaral, in her first post-resignation interview on RTP Antena 1's Ponto de Interrogação podcast aired 9 June, says she stepped down after losing the authority to govern when the 2025 wildfires and Tempestade Kristin 'escaped' her.
PSP made six detentions and fired warning shots after confrontations at Assembleia da República late on 3 June 2026 — Article 347/348 Código Penal track, garbage bins on fire, glass bottles thrown at cordon. Leitão Amaro: 'some exceeded the limits'; CGTP distanced from the post-march sub-group.
