The Inspectorate General of Internal Administration (IGAI) has launched an inspection to assess the state of preservation of PSP vehicles in Loures, the unit to which the agent who died in an on-duty traffic accident belonged.
“IGAI has decided to open an investigation, to which it ascribed an urgent nature, in order to determine the condition of the vehicles used by the Loures PSP division,” the statement posted on the official website of the General Inspectorate reads.
According to IGAI, the purpose of the investigation is to find out “whether vehicles can travel on public roads; whether the employees of this unit are obliged by their hierarchical superiors to use these vehicles; how many patrol cars are available for the entire territorial territory of the division and whether the rapid response team has vehicles to carry out its police activities.
A PSP agent was killed on 10 August and three other agents were injured in a collision with the patrol car they were traveling in in Sakawem (Lures).
The deceased agent, aged 28, was driving a car that skidded under an overpass of the A1 motorway around midnight when he was responding to an incident in Camarat.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the Minister of the Interior, José Luis Carneiro, publicly mourned the death of the agent.
Following the crash, the Independent Police Alliance (SIAP) reported that the Loures PSP unit was short of incident response vehicles, deeming it “a chaotic situation that jeopardizes the safety of the public.”
IGAI also announced the launch of an investigation “aimed at investigating the circumstances and consequences of the actions of PSP elements in or within the Pingo Doce supermarket in Cedofeita (Porto) which resulted in the injury of at least one citizen.”
A robbery at a supermarket in Sedofayt led to the arrest of two people, and a third filed a complaint against a PSP agent for “insulting physical integrity.”
Jeronimo Martins, the group that owns Pingo Doce, has denied the attacks at the supermarket, but the incident prompted Bloco de Esquerda to ask the government to question IGAI about what happened and an investigation has now been launched.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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