Polícia comunitária: a percepção da comunidade

Abstract

The study’s purpose is to identify the community's perception of the Community Police model through the Community Security Group (CSG), that belongs to the Integrated Security Unit 01 (UNISEG 01), through the 2nd Company of the 8th Police Battalion Military (2ªCIA/8ºBPM). The research points out the Community Police model’s source, discussing concepts and their variations around the subject, based on academic works of several theorists, in addition to the main characteristics and their implementation in the national and international scenario. It was discussed the source of UNISEG 01 and also the pillars supporting this project in 2016, deliberating the services of the Community Police and the value of the residents’s participation in reducing and controlling crime rates and violence through proactive military police action. The work presents the community police projects and also addresses the GSC’s peculiarities and foundations. The study is importance rests in the analysis of how the population perceives a police oriented in the philosophy of approach and preventive actions. The present study used the quantitative and descriptive approach by means of a structured and systematic questionnaire applied to the habitants, totaling 156, of the neighborhoods of Cais do Porto, Vicente Pinzon and Mucuripe in October 2018. The result obtained determines that the Community Police has achieved an excellent assessment of the perception of communities in which community services operate, and that the Integrated Security through the 2nd Company of the 8th Police Battalion Military (2ªCIA/8ºBPM) have been actingcommunity police in such a short time of activity, by means of it projects, such as GSC.