Thirty-seven people at Clarimundo and Tardoz da Improsit live without water, power or toilets, five years after the council's housing strategy listed them. It says it knows who qualifies but gives no timetable.
Bedroom doors had no handles, medicines sat in food fridges and there was no nursing room, the PSP says. The case is with prosecutors, and the building was judged a high risk for residents.
More than 600 investigators across the surrounding councils now report to a single division. Its chief expects two or three years to align them, and rejects a link between immigration and crime.
A state commission ended the Football Leaks hacker's programme, citing his lack of commitment and a low risk rating from the PSP. His lawyers say he was never heard and was assaulted in Lisbon in April.
Lisbon's Court of Appeal found that the decision not to try them failed to set out the facts behind it, and sent the case back to an investigating judge. The ruling was not unanimous.
Irregular stay in Portugal is an administrative offence punished with a fine, not a crime. The Ombudsman's anti-torture inspectors found officers in Beja who thought otherwise, and handcuffs to match.
Eurostat counts 11,190 non-EU nationals told to leave Portugal in the second quarter, behind only France, but only 330 recorded returns, 40 of them forced. Brazilians and Angolans received almost half the orders.
