Federal government begins preparing measures to ensure implementation of the Public Security PEC

The federal government begins to prepare measures that will guarantee the implementation of the Security PEC. The text increases the Union's participation in the fight against organized crime.

The text approved on Tuesday (3) includes a Unified Public Security System in the Constitution, establishing greater cooperation between the security forces of the Union, states and municipalities. It also establishes stricter punishments for members and leaders of factions, paramilitary organizations and militias, and mandatory imprisonment for these criminals in maximum security units.

Experts consider that, being in the Constitution, it becomes a guideline, a general rule. The Brazilian Public Security Forum understands that there are steps that can be immediate, such as the integration of information, agreement on rules, more adequate control of firearms, common protocols to be followed, but it considers the re-creation of the Ministry of Public Security to be urgent, essential for coordinating the cooperation of security forces.

"Today, Brazil does not know, for example, a series of information about money laundering or the involvement of organized crime with internet providers, with fuel diversion. Why? It's not that an effort is not being made, it's just that no one talks to anyone. The Ministry of Public Security will be able to take on this task of coordination, exchange, of agreeing on cooperation rules", says Renato Sérgio de Lima, director-president of the Brazilian Public Security Forum.

The government has not yet announced when it will recreate the Ministry of Public Security. He will be responsible for regulating and implementing the new system - administrative acts or bills that will depend on Congressional approval. This is the case of more restrictions on the progression of sentences and the release of prisoners, which depend on changes to the Criminal Execution Law and the Penal Code, and the creation of municipal police forces.

Even without the new ministry, the current one, the Minister of Justice, said that data sharing and joint operations between the police will already begin to be adopted:

"We will have the constitutionalization of the SUSP, the Unified System, like what happens with the SUS in health, and, from then on, we have a series of innovations, standardizing very important procedures. From a simple police report to many other initiatives", says Wellington Lima e Silva, Minister of Justice and Public Security.