AR Approves Criminal Policy Act Providing for Inmates to Clean up Forests
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The Assembly of the Republic gave the green light this Friday to the new Criminal Policy Law for the period 2026 to 2028, introducing measures that include the participation of prisoners in forest management work and the reinforcement of police operations in areas classified as "zones with social impact crime," according to the Lusa news agency. […]
Criminal Policy Act allows policies to search people in "areas with crime of social impact".
Parliamentary decree now follows for the Presidency of the Republic to promulgate the.
The final version of the diploma was approved with the favourable votes of the PSD, Arri, IL and CDS-PP, the opposition of the Free, PCP and BE and the abstention of the PS, PAN and JPP.
The Legislative Assembly approved this Friday the Criminal Policy Law 2026-2028, which provides that prisoners clean woods and forests to prevent fires and that the police search people in "areas with socially impactful crime". Initially, the government's proposal, approved by the Council of Ministers in February 2026, stipulated that the law would be valid for the 2025-2027 biennium, but the period was corrected during the document's review in …
The Assembly of the Republic has passed a new law that introduces measures such as the use of prisoners in the cleaning of forests to prevent fires and the authorization for police to carry out regular magazines and searches in areas with crime of social impact.
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