Published on
05/06/2026 - 17:24 GMT+2
Interior Minister Luís Neves announced on Friday that national airports will be reinforced with a further 340 Public Security Police (PSP) officers at the beginning of July, in order to streamline border control procedures.
"On 4 July we will deploy another 340 people, PSP officers who are currently receiving specific training for work at the borders. Lisbon alone will get 140, 100 will go to Porto, and then others to Faro, Funchal and Ponta Delgada," the minister said, in comments captured by SIC (source in Portuguese).
His remarks come in the wake of bottlenecks recently reported at border control in some Portuguese airports, with Lisbon particularly affected.
