Security. Data from 2025 ‘annul’ rasi of the year
The Annual Internal Security Report (Rasi) « It is very useful, but deep down it is a political document, because it does not reveal the whole truth and do not bother to explain the matters well»starts by telling the Sunrise a security expert. «Let’s go to facts: what is the reason for the preliminary report to be references to the far right and the extreme left and then in the final document this has practically disappeared»questions.
For the general public this issue is even able to pass the side, as the expert admits, but the numbers jump in the sight of everyone and «They are used at the will of the customer. How it was possible to say that general crime decreased 4.6% without dictating the reason for this descent »interrogates the same source. And here the known and official numbers of 2025 give it full reason. Let’s look at the arrests made by PSP in the first three months of the year, when compared to those of the previous year: from 4976 in 2024, it went to 8100 by 2025. An increase of more than 60%. That is, in three months the PSP delivered to the Public Prosecution Service 8100 people, 3124 more than in the same period.
And here, in the view of several police officers heard by the Sunriseit is easy to explain this exponential increase. Let’s look at one of the young officials, still with a lot of blood in Guelra. «The 2024 data is an aldabice footprint and politicians and commentators love to pervade what they do not know. How was it possible to hide that the police were almost six months on zeal strike and that their proactivity was only facing serious cases?says a commissioner heard by the SUN. «In the division where I work the numbers have brutally increased in the first quarter and violent crime has a considerable climb»adds.
And here we can talk again about the official numbers provided to Sunrise by PSP, which should represent almost 60% of national total of all security forces.
Of the 8100 arrests made by PSP, 1728 were from drivers with excess alcohol, the crime rate is from 1.2g/l. This in three months, as last year there was the zeal strike, only 884 drivers stopped. An increase of almost 100%. «Does anyone think that in these first three months the Portuguese are drinking twice as much as they drank last year? Only someone who is completely distracted »comments another officer.
Containment request
In a year of legislative and municipal elections, security forces commands have asked for some containment from their subordinates, namely officers. «It is easy to enjoy some harder criticism. And it can be both the extreme left and the far right to make the most of it »it still says.
But let’s continue in the numbers after the presentation of Rasi. Driver arrests without legal qualification rose from 752 in 2024 to 1670 in the first quarter of this year. “Proactivity has returned to times of precontection, it is normal for us now to have a completely atypical growth. It shows that the fall in general crime in 2024 is totally artificial »explains a squad commander.
PSP was very clear in cataloging the response to Sunrise. «Regarding its questions about the balance of PSP Police Proactivity – Comparative 1st quarter 2024/2025, at national level, we inform the following»: In 2024 there were 89 arrests for domestic violence, in 2025 there are 115. What the national direction of PSP wanted to find was that it was giving the numbers of police proactivity, as the numbers of denounced crime, which could increase, or not, known data, are still missing.
And here comes a ‘pissing’ of a unionist: «Most of the national police proactivity is from PSP. In the rasi is not perceived the percentage of proactivity of each security force. I think PSP represents about 60% of the total ».
But the Sunrise He learned from the Source of the Lisbon Command that violent crime in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, in the first two months of the year, increased by 7.2% compared to 2024. “Last year, violent and severe crime dropped in the Lisbon metropolitan area and increased in several interior districts. Now it is the opposite »concludes the same source.
Even so, as far as violent crime is concerned, the proactivity of PSP_No was not as below as in Stop operations and similar actions, and the numbers will not be very different from last year, as explained by a squad commander. “Proactivity breaks were not so accentuated, there was a strike of zeal, but it was not so expressive, and serious and violent crime never ceased to be the main priority in terms of police combat. For example, do you know where are the lowest values of violent and severe crime in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area? Amadora, where the intensive José Pedro Franco did a fantastic job ».
This year, as has been said, you are watching a singular phenomenon: violent and general crime rises in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and descends in some districts of the interior. Even so, in the first two months, violent crime in the country increased by 1.1%, while general crime rose 2.5%.
When the first quarter data is properly analyzed and consolidated, then it will be seen whether or not the numbers of the first two months are worrying, although it is known that, inevitably, general crime data will increase throughout the country and with special incidence in Lisbon, even because of Stop operations. Do not forget that driving under the influence of alcohol is the third most committed crime in the country.
