Policia Judiciaria

External Inquiry Report

Date: 2007-05-12

Place: Lagos and others

Requesting Entity: Dr G. Amaral

Executing Entity: Inspectors Ricardo and Ramos

Description and Result of Inquiry:

Following superior orders the undersigned officer accompanied by Inspector Ramos, went to the service and petrol stations in the Lagos area, with the aim of obtaining CCTV images from the period between 30-04-2007 and 06-05-2007, from which the following was found out:

Service and petrol stations with CCTV circuits:

Galp Service Station, on the A22, at Kilometre 4,350, Bensafrim-Lagos in both directions, Portimao-Lagos and Lagos-Portimao. When the supervisor was contacted he said that the CCTV circuit of these service stations is controlled by the company STRONG (Security Department) with headquarters in Lisbon, contact numbers ****. Once we contacted the company, they said that they were willing to make the images available upon receipt of an official document, saying however, that this would only be possible after the following Monday, as the technical personnel were not available.

Galp Service Station – Moura Ferreira e Filhos Lda – EN 120, Lagos in both directions. When the area coordinator was contacted she said that the CCTV system installed there only maintains recorded images, in one of the areas for five days and in the other for eight days and therefore she could only provide the images of one of these areas and only referring to the days 04-06 of May, needing some time, she could deliver the register tomorrow. She requires an official document.

BP Service Station in Telheiro – EN 125, Telheiro, Lagos in both directions. When the owner was contacted he said he was willing to provide a register with the requested images but only next Monday as the technician would only be available on that day.

Repsol Service Station – Auto Marachique, Alvor, Portimao. When the owner was contacted he informed us that the CCTV system only maintains registers for 8 days. He would only have a register from the 6th May and as it was not possible to withdraw the images in a useful period of time, as Securitas would have to be asked to do it, the images were visualised on site, referring to 06-05-2007 until 24.00 (closing of the area) nothing suspicious being observed.

Repsol Service Station – Barlavento Petroleos, Cerro das Mós, Lote 316, Lagos. When the person responsible was contacted she informed that the CCTV circuit installed there records onto a cassette and that this only holds +/- two days of recording, the same cassette always being used, which made our efforts unfeasible.

Service and Petrol Stations without CCTV circuits:

Total Service Station – EN 125 Lagos exit to Sagres, Lagos.
Total Service Station – Av dos Descobrimentos, Lagos.
BP Service Station – Av dos Descobrimentos, Lagos
Repsol (ex – Shell) Service Station – Av dos Descobrimentos, Lagos
Galp Service Station – Auto Jardim, Portimao.
BP Service Station – Penina, EN 125, Portimao.
Signed

Inspectors Ricardo and Ramos