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The retired PSP chief superintendent José Bastos Leitão wore strange glasses to speak about crime in Portugal. Opinion by Bárbara Reis.
Overall, more drug seizures were made in 2025 compared to 2024, with an approximate increase of 15.2 percent in total, the security force notes.
Update at 17:00 from the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI): total criminality rose by 2.1% in the period January–November 2025 compared with the same period the previous year.
The data were revealed by Maria Lúcia Amaral, Minister for Internal Administration, in Parliament
The Minister of Internal Administration said overall crime rose by 2.1% between January and November 2025. Over the same period, compared with 2024, violent and serious offences fell.
The number of crimes involving weapons rose by 36.8% in the 2024/2025 school year. Forty-three bladed weapons were detected.
Polígrafo TVI (from the same group as CNN Portugal), a fact‑checking programme about current affairs, began this week. Watch the video for the answer.
The number of weapons seized rose from almost 2,500 in 2020 to more than 4,700 last year. Pistols and shotguns are among the weapons most commonly in circulation.
El Nacional reports that Donald Trump pressed Venezuela’s interim government for total control of the country’s oil resources — a demand with clear geopolitical and economic consequences that raises questions about sovereignty, access to revenues and the role of external actors in a fragile political transition. Separately, Jornal Público’s analysis shows that between 2019 and 2024 some 75 per cent of drivers who died with alcohol in their system had blood-alcohol levels meeting the threshold for a criminal offence, spotlighting enforcement gaps, road-safety policy failures and the need for improved prevention and data collection. Taken together, the items illustrate linked governance challenges: contested control over strategic resources on one hand, and systemic public‑safety and criminal‑justice issues on the other.
Portugal ended 2025 with at least 108 confirmed homicides, the highest number recorded since 2018, according to figures compiled by Jornal de Notícias. The final recorded homicide of the year The post Portugal records highest homicide toll in seven years appeared first on Portugal Resident.
