The PSP command in Lisbon is reinforced with patrol vehicles from Leiria and Santarem

The Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the PSP has been reinforced with patrol vehicles from the Leiria and Santarém commands in order to “mitigate some problems,” an official source in the national police department told Lusa this Wednesday.

These reinforcements to the Lisbon Metropolitan Command came after several PSP patrol vehicles were stopped as police said the vehicles were out of order and damaged.

According to the Public Safety Police, this reinforcement helps to “mitigate the problem,” but not all vehicles deemed inoperable by police were replaced.

The PSP also indicated that the commands of Lisbon and Setúbal were the only ones affected by the stopping of vehicles, and guaranteed that “all incidents will be responded to.”

A source in the national leadership of the PSP also said that repairs of some vehicles have also been expedited.

The vehicle stop came as police officers were protesting for better pay and working conditions. These actions began with an inorganic movement that arose within the PSP against the risk subsidy provided by the government only to the judicial police.

For the third day in a row, PSP police returned this afternoon to concentrate in several cities across the country in protest, as part of an initiative that began with a PSP agent in front of the Assembly of the Republic in Lisbon and is increasingly mobilizing more members of the PSP, as well as the GNR and prison guards.

The protest by elements of the PSP, together with the GNR military, began after the government on November 29 approved the payment of PJ’s career travel allowance, which in some cases could represent an increase of almost €700 per month.

Members of the PSP and GNR consider this “unequal and discriminatory treatment.”