I do agree that they shouldn’t remain at 100k maybe like 200-300k you can’t put a massive price on them tho.
Also being the 5th safest country doesn’t really do anything to how much police you have (in my opinion) it’s all about budget and public interest. You say about specialist unit and qoute “aside from special units like K9 and SWAT” so why would you be surprised about having 15+ Vehicles in buildings. Guess someone didn’t look at the rest of the world haha naw only messing. The UK is regarded “safe” to a set level, Portugal will be regarded “safe” to a set level. All areas have crime, it’s just whether it’s reported etc but I’ll keep on topic and say quite a lot countries in the world will have more then 15+ Vehicles in many of their stations in their country.
I'm just saying that we are the 5th safest country and we only have 2-3 patrol cars per station, which maybe is impressive to me
Aslo, the area where I live has some "bad" areas near and everyone feels safe around here, and cops do great work here
I'm not saying sometimes we don't have a few riot vans on patrol, which we do (saw one today as matter of fact) and a few years ago when your dear Barack Obama visited Portugal we bought a few armored trucks, which arrived right on time (months after the visit) and one of them was around here for a week or so escorted by 2 other Personnel Carriers with full blacked out windows (they looked so great)
Also crime isn't that high, sure, mainly because of the police work? You rob and you get caught or something like that xD
I've seen unmarked police cars speeding here too
My opinion is that "we" have done very good work on what we can afford, we don't have police helicopters (any), we have 2-3 patrol cars per station, SWAT isn't really a thing here since it's very rare, so mainly you see patrol cars, traffic units and some riot vans. But again I understand that around here not everybody has a weapon like in the US, which I find weird but US was "built" in a different way I guess
Anyways, I just want to know for those asking for more space in the stations if you are doing it just for creating the stations in a realistic way or because you need them?
Have a good weekend everybody