In response to an essential need of the Maritime Police (PM), arising from the nature of its mission, psychology in the Maritime Police was institutionalized as a unique instrument in the psychological support of the Institution's professionals, in order to strengthen its effectiveness and ensure that professionals are prepared to face the challenges and demands of day-to-day police work, particularly in the maritime environment. Psychological action, particularly aimed at dealing in a technical-scientific manner, in situations of accident, tragedy, danger or calamity, among others, and their consequences for professionals, as police officers and as people.
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Louis Vaz de Carvalho
Luís Vaz de Carvalho has a degree in Clinical Psychology since 2002 and a Master's degree in Sports Psychology from the Faculty of Human Kinetics/Technical University of Lisbon (FMH/UTL) in 2007;
He was an officer in the Portuguese Army for 10 years, where he began by performing operational functions and later leadership and technical functions. While still a soldier, he was a psychologist at the Army's Applied Psychology Center, performing psychological support functions in the clinical area at military educational establishments; in the selection/recruitment of personnel at national and international level, namely in Era, Metinaro and Dili - East Timor;
He worked as a psychologist at the football club – Sport Lisboa e Benfica;
He was a psychologist in the National Republican Guard (GNR), developing activities within the scope of selection and psychosocial in critical incidents with respective monitoring;
It is a criminal police body within the Maritime Police (PM) where it began by performing police functions within the operational scope in the Lisbon area and also at the Maritime Operations Center (COMAR);
He is a psychologist and coordinator of the Maritime Police Psychology Office since 2015, and is placed in the General Command of the Maritime Police;
Full-time psychologist at the Portuguese Psychologists Association, specializing in clinical and health psychology, work, social and organizational psychology, advanced specialization in occupational health psychology and sports psychology.
Bibliographic references:
Carvalho, Luis Miguel Vaz (2016). Psychology Seminar held by the Maritime Police Psychology Office. Navy Magazine, nº16, JUL 2016, pp. 24.
Carvalho, Luis Miguel Vaz (2016). The Importance of Psychology in the Maritime Police giving rise to the creation of the Psychology Office. Defense and Security Magazine, nº13, JUN 2016, pp. 36-38.
Carvalho, Luis Miguel Vaz (2021). Psychology Office. Navy Magazine, 563, pp. 27.
Silva, Ana Catarina Huerta (2023). Psychological impact of rescuing refugees on the Maritime Police. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/9464.