PSP detained 1,281 people for domestic violence in 2024

PSP has detained 1,281 people of domestic violence and registered 15,781 complaints for this crime last year. Both the number of complaints and detention increased by 2023.

In a statement issued this Friday, the Public Security Police (PSP) advances that, of the 1,281 arrests for the crime of domestic violence, 625 were in the act and 656 out of flagrant offense.

Analyzing the data, it was concluded that by 2024 more 310 arrests (32%) were made and registered 282 complaints (1.8%) than in 2023. That year, the PSP registered 15,499 complaints of domestic violence and made 971 arrests, 612 of which in the act of crime and 359 outside the blatant offense.

This Friday's statement also reports that last year, 19,219 criminal investigations were opened in the context of domestic violence by determination of the Public Prosecution Service (MP), representing these processes more than 19% of delegated surveys by PSP.

Crime of domestic violence suspects (those who were not detained) were also constituted, and 94 measures of coercion of pre -trial detention by the competent judicial authority were also constituted.

PSP also states that last year, PSP's proximity and support teams (EPAV) also carried out 277 awareness actions that had the participation of 6,804 participants and made 25,647 individual contacts of criminal prevention within the subject of domestic violence.

In turn, the teams of the Second School Program (EPES) performed 1,795 awareness actions on domestic violence and dating, which involved 39,295 students, in the school year 2023/24.