PSD states that the Internal security annual report (RASI) must be improved in qualitative terms of the analysis that makes participatory crime. on a draft resolutionsigned by deputy Andre Coelho LimaMember of the Supreme Council for Internal Security elected by the Assembly of the Republic three recommendations concrete measures that this party would like to see in the next RASI.
One of them would force crime statistics goods analyzed taking into account the respective security force or security serviceallowing an analysis of how each police force within its jurisdiction approaches the fight against crime.
The PSD believes that it would be “advantageous” if the analysis of criminal phenomena were “carried out with specification of the respective source, that is, discriminating against the security force or agency reporting the occurrence”.
“If, due to the nature of the respective powers, the reporting of some typologies is directly attributable to a particular Criminal Police Agency (OPC), others are not, and it would thus be possible to verify the concrete consequences that each security force of Service in solving different types of crime
This is because, adds Coelho Lima in the explanatory memorandum, “if, due to the nature of the respective powers, the reporting of some typologies is directly attributable to a particular Criminal Police Agency (OPC), others are not, and thus it would be possible to verify the impact of concrete actions that each security force or service has in solving the different types of crime, in the sense of advocate a holistic view of the internal security system, providing data and information to improve the management and efficiency of the internal security system as a whole, allow better check where to optimize resourceswhere to create shared services, where to optimize operations and avoid operational redundancy”.
The deputy also emphasizes that “the inclusion of this variant makes even more sense with the future extinction of the SEFinsofar as their powers will be autonomous in their transfer to different security forces and services and non-police entities”.
Dating violence and violence against the elderly broken down
Another recommendation concerns the way in which domestic violence analysedthe crime with the highest number of reports to the police, mainly GNR and PSP.
The PSD understands that “the RASI content needs to be improved, with the data disaggregation of subtypologies of dating violence and violence against the elderly”.
This is because, as stated in the draft resolution, “the data in the RASI does not disaggregate all sub-typologies that are socially and criminally relevantnamely, data on dating violence and on violence against the elderly, which are subtypologies of greater relevance for better and more effective critical monitoring of the phenomenon”.
Dating violence, the Social Democrats justify, “because of its potential to be an antechamber of domestic violence and violence against the elderly, because of the degree of perversity combined with the exploitation of vulnerabilities, but above all because of the greater need for the protection of this often isolated and unprotected population”.
for PSD”the inclusion of disaggregated data relating to these phenomena facilitates critical analysis in the context of the annual evaluation of crime in our countryagain, both from an operational point of view and from the point of view of the policy to be implemented”.
“Knowledge of concrete figures referring to these specific forms of violence should be the guiding basis of the respective government policies for prevention and control”.
Because “knowledge of the concrete figures referring to these specific forms of violence should be the guiding basis of the respective government policies for prevention and control”.
The third proposal has to do with an improvement in the analysis of criminal phenomena, no longer just a comparison with the previous year, but also more extensive evaluations.
“Although the elaboration of the RASI went beyond an analysis of certain criminal typologies, and compared only to the events of the previous year, we understand that there would be analytical benefit from the introduction of the multi-year analytical perspective, which covers the last ten years, concerning all crime (types and subtypes). We believe that because of this a broader view of the evolution of each of the criminal typologies in analysis, which means that the political and above all operational reflection cannot be limited to the mere immediate impact, but above all to the critical analysis of specific bets to combat certain typologiesas well as the atypical evolutions that can be justified in phenomena of mere social evolution,” the PSD justifies.
The party recalls that “in the latest report, a multi-year analysis has already been carried out for the first time, although limited to comparing data with the pre-pandemic years (2019) and for preliminary explanatory purposes of the overall growth of crime rates in the year 2022″.
As DN also highlighted, the 2022 RASI was a “two-stroke” report – one comparing 2022 to 2021; another compares 2022 to 2019, the pre-pandemic year. In the first comparison, violent crime increased by 14.4% and overall crime by 14.1%; in the second, it fell by 7.8% and only rose by 2.5%, respectively.
Discussion of this motion for a resolution has not yet been scheduled, however the PSD hopes it can be discussed and approved on June 22when the RASI 2022 is discussed.
RASI collects and analyzes crime data reported by eight OPCs: GNR, PSP, PJ, SEF, ASAE, Tax and Customs Authority (AT), and Military Judicial Police (PJM). It is up to the Secretary General of the Internal Security System to prepare it.
Source: DN
