Polícia Comunitária: limites e desafios da consolidação da 1ª Unidade de Segurança Comunitária (USC) no Município de São Luís/MA

Abstract

The present work deals with an analysis of the limits and challenges of consolidation of the 1st Community Security Unit (USC) in the municipality of São Luís / Ma. Community policing is seen as a way of combating crime with the aim of reducing it. This model of policing acts in direct contact with the community, in which the trust between population and police must be indispensable, since the interaction between them causes the police and the committed community to solve these problems of public safety issues. Thus, some considerations were presented about the military police highlighting the concepts and characteristics, as well as their trajectory in Brazil and the State of Maranhão. Subsequently, an approach was also taken on community policing. It was also described about the implementation of the 1st community security unit (USC) in Maranhão. In order to carry out the research, we used the inductive methodology, with a qualitative approach, based on theoretical- documentary research and analysis of results with the hermeneutic-dialectical method. The result confirmed that despite the numerous factors that make it difficult to consolidate community policing in the area, there is an attempt to resume what had previously been proposed by USC.