No, no press statements at all during a police investigation. They're only doing them now because they've been advised to by the british police officers or liaison officers or whoever is there, to keep the british press happy. I think they want to keep the brits living there happy, being such a big and respected community in the algarve and being british tourism so important there.
It would be nice though if the british press found a way of respecting the portuguese way of doing things. I'm not saying they shouldn't be criticised, unfortunately some criticism is due for not getting organized, closing the borders and doing a very intense search on the first night when it could have maybe have payed off. But they need to understand that, first of all, the police are NOT allowed to give any information and, second, there is no history of such kidnaps in Portugal. The police force that was first called to the resort have zero experience on something like this. They sent for the investigative (?) police, Policia Judiciaria, but that probably consists of no more than a couple of officers, probably very ill prepared as well. There was no plan because there's no history of such a crime, it took them a long (too long unfortunately) time to get organized.
Someone asked why would a british peadophile kidnapp a girl in POrtugal instead of here. have you thought how easy it is to disapear with a child there? The borders are open... Even with border control, it only takes a small boat to cross the river between portugal and spain in a non-controlled area, 2 hours away from where it happened. It would be so much more difficult here....