The ideal profiles: beyond the uniform
Municipal security officials need demonstrable operational experience, training in public management, understanding of criminal intelligence, and institutional leadership capacity. It is not enough to have been a police officer; You need to have been a good police officer.
Ideal profiles would combine seniority at the institution, outstanding performance evaluations, completed specialization courses, and, crucially, verifiable references from previous superiors.
A command without police history is a command without legitimacy in the eyes of its subordinates.
Shielding meritocracy: institutional protection mechanisms
The most effective technical solution is the independence of the process: create evaluation commissions made up of academics specialized in public security, members of the National Institute of Public Security, representatives of successful police corporations in the region, and a certified citizen observer. These commissions should not report to the municipal president, but to the entire council and state evaluation bodies.
Decisions must be published with detailed technical justification, allowing for challenges and reviews.
A viable novelty would be to establish evaluation periods in the middle of the mandate: if an incumbent does not meet objective performance metrics, he or she can be removed without waiting for the end of the triennium.
Key actors and areas of auscultation
Municipalities must convene local universities, security professional associations, representatives of civil organizations dedicated to public security, and SNSP delegates.
These actors would validate requirements, supervise calls and guarantee transparency. State security corporations also have a crucial role: they can provide performance benchmarks, technical advice and references on candidates who have worked in inter-institutional operations. The police union, although conflictive, has valuable information about the real trajectories of its members and must have a voting voice through a senior representative.
