Public safety, crime statistics, and security in Portugal.
The rail safety authority's 2025 report counts 25 significant accidents, the fewest in five years, but level crossing accidents more than doubled to 11. Broken rails and track deformations also rose.
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.
An order published on Monday tells the energy directorate DGEG to draft new rules for the maintenance, inspection, sealing and accident reporting of lifts, escalators and goods lifts, replacing a regime dating from 2002.
A working group led by the PSP's private security department starts in early October and must deliver a proposal to replace the rules of Lei n.º 34/2013 by early April 2027, covering training, supervision, new technology and critical infrastructure.
Portaria n.º 434/2026/1 is the first change in 33 years to the 1993 rulebook on flight and rest time for aerial-work pilots. A 20-day run needs the pilot's express agreement and five consecutive days off at the end. It takes effect on Wednesday.
Coimbra is forecast to reach 37 degrees on Tuesday and Lisbon 35.4 on Monday. Three quarters of the mainland is at one of the top two fire danger levels on a Sunday in late September.
A decree-law published in Wednesday's gazette bans new level crossings outright, sets measured thresholds for closing the ones that remain, and writes a civil liability chapter that defines when the infrastructure manager is at fault. It starts on 1 March 2027.
