Análise das implicações jurídicas da flexibilização do conceito de autoridade policial

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to analyze, from an eminently descriptive bibliographical review built by doctrinal and legislative research, the implications of the extensive interpretation of the concept of Police Authority present in the Code of Criminal Procedure. It was intended to demonstrate that the concept of Police Authority used to mean only the position of police deputy, but with the advent of the Federal Constitution of 1988 - which brought the public security bodies to the constitutional text and unquestionably separated the police functions from the jurisdictional functions – began to present a new, more extensive interpretation of the term than the initial concept. Thus, the main objective of this study was to analyze the legitimacy of this extensive interpretation of the concept of Police Authority and whether it is a trend in our legal system or whether it is just something punctual. Keywords: criminal procedural law; police authority; concept; extensive interpretation.