Police logged 4,075 school incidents in 2025/26, up 4.6 percent, with 1,426 assaults and 60 weapons seized. Sexual offences and drug dealing rose too. Head teachers say schools need more psychologists and social workers.
The PSP's largest union, joined by GNR officers, opens a cycle of protests in seven cities, demanding pre-retirement, better pay and the rest of the 2024 agreement. Careers and working time are on Tuesday's agenda.
Secondary movement inside Schengen is now the borders unit's main worry, ahead of the external frontier. For many of those arriving, Portugal is a staging post rather than a destination.
The head of the national foreigners and borders unit told Lusa the estate meets Portugal's obligations today. The return law that came into force on Friday lets people be held in it for up to 360 days.
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.
How firearm licensing works in Portugal: the PSP licence classes, the medical, course, and exam, the safe rule, limits, renewals, and inherited guns.
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.
