The Government wants the police to work with municipalities to identify vacant properties at risk of improper occupation, in order to prevent usurpations, according to the proposed law that guides criminal policy for 2025-2027.
In the proposal approved by the Council of Ministers on Friday, February 20, and subsequently sent to the Assembly of the Republic, the executive establishes that “security forces and services develop and execute, in conjunction with intermunicipal entities and municipalities, actions to prevent and monitor the crime of usurpation of immovable property” (buildings, houses and similar).
These actions include the “identification of vacant properties or those that appear abandoned and subject to improper occupation”, “articulation with social action services and public and municipal housing, whenever situations of social vulnerability are at stake”, and “sharing relevant information between public entities” about the phenomenon.
The inclusion of the prevention of this crime among the priorities until 2027, to which an autonomous chapter is dedicated, is justified by the “social impact” of the crime.
Violent crime, domestic violence and corruption are some of the crimes that remain priorities in relation to the Criminal Policy Law for 2023-2025, with the fight against hate, sabotage or attacks on critical infrastructure and the violation of sanctions imposed on Russia as part of the invasion of Ukraine being the main novelties.
The diploma will still have to be discussed and approved by the Assembly of the Republic, and may undergo changes.
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