Polícia à brasileira: representações dos policiais da BCS George Américo acerca dos impasses causados pela subdivisão da atividade policial

Abstract

This work has the purpose to investigate the practical dilemmas generated by the current brazilian model of police (at the state level), which is divided between civil and military police. Adopting a methodological perspective of qualitative nature, from the Grounded Theory and conducting semi-structured interviews to collect data, analyzed the speeches of full military policemen in George Américo neighborhood Community-Based of Security. Systematized the results by establishing categories of analysis, they were confronted with the literature review on the subject - about the current challenges of public safety in general and management of police activity in particular, in order to verify that the problems posed by experts are also perceived by the police in their day to day as well as to identify possible "new" problems heretofore not known. After the resumption of relevant theoretical aspects and analysis of empirical data obtained from Grounded Theory, the work has noted that, in general, the problems mentioned by the experts are experienced by the police, on the other hand, the policemen pointed some issues not found in the literature. Compared to the results, is possible conclude by the need to deepen the research on the police institutions, in particular with regard to listening to its professionals, so we can build public security policies aware of what, in practice, causing difficulties for the police performance.