The fight against urban violence in the country is implemented through different
strategies and institutional instruments. Given this and the role assigned to public security, by
the 1988 constituent, of being eminently preventive, the need arose, given the high rates of
violence recorded in the country - especially in the northern region in recent decades - to
analyze the guidelines of the strategy of Community Police, especially those present in the
states of the Northern Region. The concept of Community Police says that it is a public
security strategy that highlights the partnership between the population and the police, which
is one of the most widespread concepts among scholars on the subject, and is also present in
the National Community Police Directive in Brazil (Ordinance No. 43, May 12, 2019). So, in
order to analyze the compatibility between the Community Police guidelines existing in the
North Region and the legislative creation of an interdisciplinary human rights education
nucleus, within the scope of the Military Police of Tocantins, a documental, bibliographical
and also, a questionnaire was sent to the Military Police of this region, whose purpose was to
investigate what are the main guidelines of the Community Police strategy, present in these
institutions and how such guidelines and practices were dealt with by local legislation. In the
state of Tocantins, for example, the Community Police strategy, as an alternative to that
vision of distancing the police and the community, is already a reality. There is even an
attempt by the Institution, through an internal instrument, called SOP – Standard Operating
Procedure, to standardize the actions developed, based on the application of Community
Police guidelines, present in the Corporation. Therefore, it is concluded that an
interdisciplinary center of human rights education is fully compatible with the preventive
nature of public security and the Military Police, as a permanent institution. In addition, as it
exists nationally and in the North Region, extensive experience with the Community Police
strategy that seeks, precisely, to bring the community closer to the Institution, the creation of
an interdisciplinary nucleus, would constitute an amplifying instrument for this approximation
and partnership, it may represent a milestone in public safety in Tocantins.
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