POLICE COMMITS SUICIDE AT MOTHER’S HOUSE WITH SERVICE WEAPON-PORTUGAL

Antonio Broa, 42, married, father of two girls, District Command agent Beja PSP, put this Thursday, terms to his life, using the service weapon.

Resident of Ferreira do Alentejo, was service in the Beja Squad to the 7.00 hours. At about 20:15 hours, at the mother's home, he told the mother that he was going to rest, lay back and with the service pistol shot himself in the head.

The action will have been premeditated taking into account that left all the PSP material tidy bags: weapons, boots, belt, handcuffs, and baton, boots and work uniforms. The main uniform was neatly hung on a hook on the door of the guard-fact.

They are not yet known reasons that led the agent to put an end to life.

On site were military's Criminal Investigation Unit of the GNR (Republican National Guard), 3 operating of Ferreira do Alentejo Fire, supported by two cars. The body was removed to the Medico-Legal Office of the Hospital of Beja, where it will be autopsied.

According to a study of subcomissária Sylvia Hunter, suicide is the leading cause of unnatural death among the agents of the Public Security Police. The problem may be related "with a lack of psycho-affective monitoring and the difficulties in dealing with the daily problems of the profession," says the author.

In 2015, they were recorded eight suicides in PSP (public security Police). In 2011, seven members put an end to life. In GNR, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there were 11 suicides in 2008 and eight in 2009 to eight cases. Last year, there were seven suicides.