President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated, on Thursday (20), that he will not decrease operations of guarantee of law and order (GLO) in state security and defended the approval of the proposal of amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of Public security. The text must expand the attributions of the Union and federal forces in the fight against crime, which today are the responsibility of the states.
Originally presented in October last yearPEC has spent the last months in debate between federal and state government and is now under analysis at the Presidency Civil House, before being sent to the National Congress. The new version of Text reinforces the autonomy of governors With regard to the command of civil, military police and the bodies of military firefighters.
“Many times, governors do not want [atuação da União na segurança pública] Because the police are a piece of state power and, often, governors do not want the federal government to intrude on state security, ”Lula said in an interview with Tupi FM Radiofrom Rio de Janeiro.
“From time to time, they [governadores] They ask me to do a GLO. I will not do GLO, because the GLO that was done in Rio de Janeiro, the federal government spent more than $ 2 billion and resolved almost nothing. So what we want is active participation in order to have a complementary action with the state governor and definitely resolve the security issue, ”he explained.
In 2018, the federal government made a Intervention in Rio de Janeirowith the use of staff of the armed forces in state policing.
“We then will send this PEC clearly define the role of the Union in the participation of public security. As far as we can go, how far it can be intruding, where the Federal Police can act, where we can have the National Force participating, “said Lula.
“We are creating a background so that we can help both the police and the penitentiary background, because we want to have a more effective and stronger participation in the security of each state,” he added.
Body cameras
This year, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) began to definitely judge the argument of non -compliance with the Fundamental Precept (ADPF) No. 635, known as ADPF of the favelas and, in the action, already determined measures to reduce lethality during operations in communities of the state capital.
To reduce the number of deaths in poor communities, the President defended the use of body cameras by the military police. “Any measure to take, we have to be careful because we can’t get into the favela just to kill people. We want the police to come in with a camera for us to know if it will be violent or not before trying anything. The shot has to be the last thing we have to do, ”he said.
“Now, if necessary, in the shooting, someone will die and we can not only blame the police. I mean that we are extremely interested in solving this security problem throughout Brazil. For this, we need to approve PEC, ”he said.
One Report released last week by the Fogo Cruzado Institute It reveals that municipalities of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region live a climb of violence at the beginning of the year, with an increase in the number of shootings, dead, injured, victims of lost bullets and shot in theft.
“We cannot allow this bang-bang to continue in Rio de Janeiro. We cannot allow it. I think we can’t have police just to enter the favela, to attack, to kill or to shoot. The police must be constantly participating in the daily life of the favela. And that’s what we want to approve in this PEC, what is the role of the state? ”Slut added in the interview.
