The Attorney General of Rio de Janeiro, Antonio José Campos Moreira, said this Friday (14) that combating organized crime requires national coordination and State policies, not government policies, in the area of public security. 
“The State, under penalty of delegitimizing itself, needs to give a consistent response,” he said during the National Congress of the Public Ministry, in Brasília.
Moreira highlighted that the Public Ministry must act in a coordinated and integrated manner, with an adequate structure, rather than in isolation within its executive bodies.
When describing the gravity of the current scenario, the prosecutor cited the significant financial volume handled by criminal organizations and, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, the impressive military power of the factions, which have veritable equipped armies.
“What is happening in Brazil is very serious. Organized crime, historically underestimated, generates huge amounts of money, with enormous corrupting power, capable of unbalancing the formal economy”, he stated.
The PGJ clarified that the Public Ministry must always act with prudence, balance and independence, with no room for ideological radicalism.
“We cannot adhere either to speeches that preach a minimum criminal process, or to concepts that propose the extinction of criminal law,” he stated.
