The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), announced on Wednesday (3) that the Special Commission for the Analysis of the Proposal of Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of Public Security will be chaired by Deputy Aluisio Mendes (Republicans-MA), while the report of the bill will be the responsibility of Federal Deputy Mendonça Filho (Union-PE).
“They are parliamentarians with extensive experience in the area, which will ensure a technical and qualified debate. Public safety is a priority of this home and the Brazilian people,” Motta wrote in a post on social networks.
Submitted in April by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the National Congress, PEC was built after consultation with governors and It is one of the bets to expand citizen security. THE text It foresees, among other issues, greater integration between the Union and the federated entities and to give constitutional support to the Unified Public Security System (SUSP), created by Ordinary Law in 2018.
PEC also proposes to update the skills of the Federal Police (PF) and Federal Highway (PRF). The PRF, for example, would become a Federal ostensive police, being renamed Federal Road Police, with its expanded duties to do ostensible policing also on railways and waterways, as well as highways, as it is today, and to assist state security forces when requested.
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Other proposals are the standardization of protocols, information and statistical data; to establish general guidelines for safety and penitentiary system; to fix attributions from municipal guards and create corregedorias and ombudsmen with functional autonomy in relation to security forces under their scrutiny.
The National Funds of Public Security (FNSP) and National Penitentiary (Funpen) would also be foreseen in the Constitution, in order to guarantee resources and protect them against contingencies.
In July, the Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Commission (CCJ) of the Chamber of Deputies had already approved the admissibility of the text. At the time, the rapporteur had also been Mendonça Filho.
Now, the special commission, consisting of 34 deputies, has 40 plenary sessions to vote on the proposal. The deadline for amendments runs out in the first ten sessions. Then the proposal is analyzed by the plenary.
Approval depends on the favorable votes of 3/5 of the deputies (308), in two voting shifts. If approved, the text then goes to the Federal Senate, which will also constitute a special commission and need to approve the proposal for 49 votes, three fifths of the 81 senators.
