Abstract
The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus not only accentuated the responsibility of the Security Forces to protect human life but also challenged the ability to manage change that, in a highly demanding environment, lacks integrated approaches that would enhance the collective and cooperative effort to share a common commitment. The Portuguese Guarda Nacional Republicana has guided its action according to the 4S strategic path, based on security, safety, social and support pillars, and on integrated strategic planning that, achieved by joint, preventive, educational awareness-raising and intervention actions, and by current proximity patrolling, have enabled obtaining social support and protecting military personnel lives and citizens lives. These tools simultaneously improve operational synergies enhanced by close cooperation and collaboration relations with several partners, doing justice to the premise that together we are capable and thus preventing anyone from falling behind.
Highlights
The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has made the global citizens even more vulnerable to universal and borderless threats, and has put greater emphasis on the accountability of the Security Forces to protect human lives and, above all, to empower it
The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus accentuated the responsibility of the Security Forces to protect human life and challenged the ability to manage change that, in a highly demanding environment, lacks integrated approaches that would enhance the collective and cooperative effort to share a common commitment
The Portuguese Guarda Nacional Republicana has guided its action according to the 4S strategic path, based on security, safety, social and support pillars, and on integrated strategic planning that, achieved by joint, preventive, educational awareness-raising and intervention actions, and by current proximity patrolling, have enabled obtaining social support and protecting military personnel lives and citizens lives
Summary
The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has made the global citizens even more vulnerable to universal and borderless threats, and has put greater emphasis on the accountability of the Security Forces to protect human lives and, above all, to empower it. It has simultaneously required that they act with respect for the dignity and integrity of the human person and based on the principles of the democratic rule of law, according to the premise of utmost containment with minimum disturbance, in view of conducts and behaviours that disregard the value of human life and may contribute to worsen national public health. In this context, it is vital to tackle the following questions: How can Security Forces safeguard the human lives of their personnel without compromising the lives that they have a responsibility to protect? Example of which is the partial suspension of the exercise of the following rights: to move throughout national territory; to private property and economic initiative; of workers; of international movement; of assembly and demonstration; of freedom of belief in its collective dimension; to learn and teach; of data protection and resistance
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