Today, the Coimbra Chamber unanimously approved a recommendation for the executive to defend with the government a strengthening of human resources of the PSP and the replacement of the second Rapid Intervention Team (EIR).
© Chamber of Coimbra
09/11/2026
by
Lusa
A Coimbra House today unanimously approved a recommendation for the executive to defend with the Government a strengthening of human resources of the PSP and the replacement of the second Rapid Intervention Team (EIR).
The proposal for a recommendation, presented by the former councilwoman of the city of Aquida, Maria Lencastre Portugal, defends a request with the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) and the National Directorate of the PSP for the replacement of the second EIR, “attention to the need for deterrence and preventive intervention capacity”.
EIR was dismantled after 18 agents had been released from medical school on the day of the football match between the Leiria Union and Sporting in 2024, at a time when security forces demanded improvements in their pay conditions.
In addition to defending the replacement of the second EIR of Coimbra, the proposal recommends the municipality to ask for clarification on the reasons related to the dismantling of that team.
The document also advocates that the local authority instigates the MAI and the National Directorate of the PSP to elaborate and present “a plan to strengthen the staff and training of police forces deployed to the municipality of Coimbra”.
The recommendation also proposes the convening of the Coimbra Municipal Security Council for “global assessment of security conditions in the municipality”.
During the discussion of the proposal, the mayor of Coimbra, Ana Abrunhosa (PS/Free/PAN), highlighted the “very good collaboration” with the PSP, noting that serious and violent crime fell in the last Annual Internal Security Report (RASI).