Serviço De Estrangeiros E Fronteiras
150px, Building of Autoridade Nacional Segurança Rodoviária and Serviço Estrangeiros e Fronteiras The - SEF ( en, Foreigners and Borders Service) is a police service integrated into the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose mission is to enforce immigration and asylum in Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ..., in accordance with the provisions of constitutional, legal and governmental guidelines. Among other duties, SEF is the agency responsible for border control and the issuing of residence permits to foreign nationals legally residing in Portugal. Organisation Headquartered in Lisbon, the SEF is headed by a director general, including central and decentralised services. *Central services: **Administrative Council; **Offices: Asylum and Refugees, Documen ...
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General Directorate Of Security (Portugal)
The General Directorate of Security ( pt, Direção-Geral de Segurança; DGS) was a Portuguese criminal police body active between 1969 and 1974, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. Although their duties included, in addition to state security, the supervision of foreigners, border control, and the fight against illegal trafficking of migrants, historically the DGS was essentially a secret police responsible for repression, without judicial control, of all forms of political opposition to the Estado Novo. The DGS was created in 1969 to succeed to the International and State Defense Police (PIDE), by Decree-Law no. 49 401, of November 24, 1969, of the government of Marcello Caetano.Darren Palmer, Michael M. Berlin, Dilip K. Das (2012); Global Environment of Policing', page. 88 It was disbanded in the continent and islands in 1974, following the Revolution of April 25 that ended the Estado Novo, by Decree-Law no. 171/74 of April 25. In overseas territories it c ...
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