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Police receive new pistols

• 25 Oct 2007 •

NEW pistols are being delivered to the PSP and GNR Police in Portugal. Interior Minister Rui Pereira attended the ceremony for the formal handing over of the first new weapons at the GNR Practical School in Queluz. The minister said: “These new weapons are essential to give our police forces operational capability to deal with violent crime. Although Portugal was considered by international studies as the ninth safest country in the world, we mustn’t rely on this statistical fact and we must be ready to maintain our capability to fight violent criminals.”

The Austrian-made Glock 19, 9mm semi-automatic pistol, was the weapon selected to equip the Portuguese Police. The Glock 19 is considered safer and more resistant and increases the firepower of police officers. Portugal’s Maritime Police has already received the new guns. Overall, 42,000 new Glock pistols are scheduled to be delivered to police forces until 2010 when all of the old police guns will be replaced.

Police in Portugal currently use 14 different brands of pistol, most of which are considered outdated models with very modest operational capability. A training exercise took place in the Algarve with 20 police officers receiving instruction from war veterans and American agents into the tactics and strategies for using the new gun.

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