Bill intends to transform Palmas Metropolitan Guard into Municipal Police; understand what changes

The Palmas Metropolitan Guard (GMP) should be renamed the Palmas Municipal Police (PMP). The change is foreseen in a bill that is in the final stages of preparation by the municipality's Civil House. The proposal must be forwarded to the City Council for a vote before the year-end parliamentary recess, as expected by the city hall.

Created 35 years ago, the Palmas Metropolitan Guard currently has almost 300 agents and the change seeks to adapt the municipal legislation that governs the corporation to the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) No. 18/2025, known as the Public Security PEC. The proposal was approved by the National Congress and is awaiting promulgation to come into force throughout the country.

According to Palmas City Hall, the change will have limited administrative and operational impacts. In practice, the project foresees that the position of metropolitan guard will be formally called municipal police officer. The change will give legal support to the overt patrolling actions that agents already carry out on the streets.

The main change noticed by the population will be in the visual identification of the corporation. The project foresees the renewal of uniforms, insignia, coats of arms, functional documents and the identification of vehicles and vessels. Changes to internal systems are also planned.

There will be no changes to salaries, benefits or job and career plans. The salaries, rights and duties of agents will remain the same, as will the corporation's duties.

The corporation will continue to be responsible for preventive and community patrolling in neighborhoods, traffic inspection, protection of public property and environmental care. The specialized centers, such as the Ronda Ostensiva Municipal (ROMU), the Safe Women's Patrol, the School Guardian and the Environmental Center, will also continue to operate normally.

In an interview with TV Anhanguera, the commander of the Metropolitan Guard, inspector Gilmar Fernandes, stated that the change officially recognizes the activities that are already carried out by agents.

"This change reflects the visible and community patrolling that our troops already carry out daily on the streets. It is the definitive recognition of the relevance of our actions in the public security of the Capital", said the commander.

Integration with security forces

According to legal scientist Flávio Pierobon, heard by the report, municipal agents will continue to carry out the same activities. With the change, however, they will become formally part of the public security system, with more coordinated action with the Military and Civil police.

"They are no longer a structure linked only to the municipality. They are part of an entire public security structure that, which is obviously linked, has municipal limits, but is part of the larger system of information exchange, of joint action with the Military Police and the Civil Police. The action remains practically the same", he highlighted.

The project will be analyzed by Palmas councilors. The change depends on the approval of the Chamber for the transition to begin to be implemented.