Combined task force convenes over Algarve (in)security

This special working group will pinpoint the various types of crime registered in the region, identify areas of risk/ criminal patterns/ groups and individuals suspected by the authorities or already actively sought, and look into the possible connections that may exist with other areas of the country, or even abroad.

The information gleaned will serve to plan specific operations – combined or otherwise – aimed at the eradication of all problems detected.

For the moment, the team’s main sites of interest are the areas around Loulé, Quarteira and Almancil.

The creation of this task force was one of the measures recently announced by Internal Administration Minister Rui Pereira when he visited the Algarve – but although his words served to calm people’s rising fears, almost no day goes by without new robberies and break-ins throughout the region.