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10/07/2012
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Rio de Janeiro - After a year and a half of occupation the complex Alemão and Penha, in the north of state capital, the army left yesterday (9) to make safe communities. During the period, the military had to face armed smugglers and allegations of civil society organizations, abuse of authority, theft and torture of residents.
From now on, those who take the police actions in Alemão and Penha is the command of the units of Pacification Police (UPP), which already has four bases with a thousand policemen in the area. The coordinator, Colonel Rogerio Seabra, who attended the event, said that the community approach is a process "under construction" that aims to stimulate dialogue.
"It's the community that will say their priorities," he said. "We are a community policing, able to talk, to listen more than talk," he added. One of the projects of the Colonel's visit is to promote kids to the headquarters of the command of the UPP, which is based in the former Force operational Pacification in Itaóca Avenue.
Unlike the inauguration of the headquarters of the UPP in the area, the community did not attend the ceremony. The coordinator of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Roots in Motion, which operates ten years ago in Alemão, Allan Pinheiro, said the presence of Pacification Force was marked by the lack of dialogue, which tends to intensify with the transition to the UPP .
"We have more autonomy to make communal feasts or traditional, they were the moment of sociability of the community. There is no dialogue. Dialogues are monologues, which are made at the time of conflict, repression," he denounced. Pinheiro said that on Sunday (8) a June party was halted by the police, which continues without authorizing the funk parties.
During the event the transfer of policing actions in the communities to the Secretariat of Public Security, General responsible for Pacification Force, Adriano Pereira Junior, played down the problems. According to him, the peacekeeping force out of the complex Alemão and Penha, which were once considered the headquarters of marginality in Rio, with the "sense of mission accomplished."
"When we came here looking for people walked the floor, afraid to greet us. We wore a vest and helmet. Gradually, we were gaining confidence as they worked really respecting the population, over time, changed his attitude," said. For genral, groups who resisted, were linked to trafficking.
The ruled Sergio Cabral said that the actions in the communities are not only security and said it has implemented in recent years about $ 800 million to hospitals, education and sanitation. The work of the military, said they played a successful role for which have not received specific training.
"Here came the military who worked in a situation quite disparate training," said Cabral. "The training [the military] is for the clash, the clash, but here was made defense of citizenship. Soldiers were called to action for social intervention to manage family situations, neighborhood meetings and at the same time, face marginalization" .
During the event, Gen. Adriano Pereira said to be the case for trial of an army lieutenant accused of stealing a beer cooler and two air conditioners in the house residents. The complaint was accepted by the Supreme Military Court.
Source: Agency Brazil
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