A influência do modelo de gestão de polícia comunitária na democratização da polícia militar do Espírito Santo, na cidade de Vitória, entre 1994 e 2006

Abstract

The increasing level of violence has made public safety a widely discussed issue in the media, and has led countries to spend a huge amount of time and money trying to find an effective way of reducing criminality. This article aims to present a new alternative to military police management, which joins police officers and citizens, called community policing, which represents a major shift from the traditional model of policing and its warrior, patrimonialist and sectarian roots. The study identifies and assesses the main differences between the two models. By conducting a series of semi-structured, deep interviews with officers, non-officers and community leaders that lived the changes in the ostensive policing model in Vitoria in the period of 1994-2006. It was concluded that the military police of the State of Espírito Santo was interactive until the end of the XX century; however, after that it has retrogressed to the traditional management approach.