The Government will invest more than 16 million euros in the construction or rehabilitation of PSP and GNR facilities in various municipalities in the Algarve. In all, nine interventions are planned, which should be carried out by 2021.
The Minister of Internal Administration Eduardo Cabrita was yesterday in Faro to meet with the mayors of the Algarve, at the premises of AMAL – Algarve Intermunicipal Community. On the agenda were several topics, including security, with the member of the Government taking the opportunity to review the investment that is planned in infrastructure in the region.
Of the planned works, seven are registered in the Law on the Programming of Security Forces Infrastructure and Equipment as being of first priority.
The biggest slice of the cake is destined to GNR. In all, almost 15 million euros (14.934.200) will be invested in the installations of this security force, in six municipalities in the Algarve.
A value that is highly inflated by the construction, from scratch, of new facilities for the Territorial Command of Faro da Guarda, in the municipality of Loulé, a work that alone has an estimated cost of ten million euros.
Also in the municipality of Loulé, the construction of a new GNR barracks in Almancil is already underway, a project estimated to cost close to 1,2 million euros, and the Territorial Post of Quarteira (873 euros). contracts that should be completed by mid-year.
Also with regard to the GNR, the Government's investment plan provides for the rehabilitation of the security force's Olhos de Água facilities (250 thousand euros), the construction of a new Territorial Post and the Coastal Control Sub-detachment of Aljezur (1,5 million), the rehabilitation of the Lagos Territorial Post (424 thousand euros), the renovation and expansion of the current GNR facilities in Monchique (no cost estimate) and a new post in Monte Gordo (700 thousand euros).
Regarding the PSP, there is a cash investment in the Police Division of Portimão (800 thousand euros) and in the police station in Vila Real de Santo António (400 thousand euros), as well as in the District Command of Faro, in the Algarve capital (330 thousand euros). All in all, it comes to 1,5 million euros (1.530.000).
In this case, only the first two are of top priority, with the rehabilitation of the District Command placed in a third level of urgency.
The question of the infrastructure of the security forces was just one of the many that was on the table, this Tuesday, at the meeting between the mayors and the Government. According to Minister Eduardo Cabrita, “internal security, the preparation of the next electoral acts, which will have innovative aspects, the issues of civil protection and the preparation of joint work for the time of the 2019 fires, the issues related to decentralization and an issue that in the Algarve has a particular impact: contingency measures in the situation of non-agreement for Brexit».
"It was a good meeting", summed up the member of Government.
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