Segurança e Governação Climáticas: o Brasil na Cena Internacional

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Relações Internacionais, na especialidade de Globalização e Ambiente

O sistema prisional português no contexto da segurança pública

In actual context of multidimensional and complex interactions, public safety has been occupying more and more both rhetorical and political agendas and citizen’s concerns. People discuss the causes, crime combat, question the punishment and its implementation as a way of stop the the increasing criminality. Such as public safety, also prisons and prision systems as integral parts in coproduction safety have been taking the center of the discussions, which seeks to realize the preponderance of the portuguese prision system in the context of public safety.

Segurança na Contemporaneidade - Internacionalização e Comunitarização

O conceito de segurança é cada vez mais polissémico, contestado, ambíguo e complexo. A segurança tem vindo a ser delegada, co-produzida e ―desestatizada‖, gerando-se a convicção de que a noção weberiana de monopólio do uso legitimo da força por parte do Estado está em crise, face a uma diversidade de actores que passaram também a fornecer segurança, quer aos cidadãos, quer ao próprio Estado, nos níveis interno e supranacional, numa perspectiva concorrencial, complementar ou subsidiária. Assim, tem-se verificado a evolução de novos quadros conceptuais para fazer face aos limites constrangentes do vestfalianismo e para o estudo da segurança, procurando abranger o contexto social, cultural, político e económico do ocidente e das latitudes ―não ocidentais‖, num mundo cada vez mais fragmentado, marcado pela desigualdade e por novos fenómenos de (in)segurança. Observa-se uma dupla tendência de internacionalização e de comunitarização da segurança na contemporaneidade. Por um lado, a segurança alarga-se a uma escala global, extravazando as fronteiras físicas dos Estados. Por outro lado, procura adaptar-se e responder às especificidades locais, sendo co-produzida entre diversos actores sociais num esforço colectivo para garantir, manter e aprofundar a segurança. Os Estados procuram fazer face às ameaças e riscos fora das suas fronteiras e, ao mesmo tempo, delegam funções de segurança numa miríade de entidades privadas, locais e nos próprios cidadãos. A dialéctica entre a comunitarização da segurança a uma escala local (soft policing) e uma militarização e musculação das respostas, a um nível internacional e nacional, para enfrentar as ameaças e riscos multiformes (hard policing) é uma das grandes tendências do nosso tempo. No mundo globalizado, complexo e em mutação permanente procura-se assim uma alteração paradigmática superadora da tradicional compartimentação estanque entre segurança interna e externa, entre justiça e administração interna, entre gestão militar e gestão civil de crises, entre segurança pública e segurança privada, entre os conceitos de criminalidade organizada e de criminalidade de massa e entre prevenção e repressão, de forma a encarar novos desafios.

A (in)segurança privada em Portugal

Along with the food and the comfort, safety has always been one of the human priorities. In pursuit of this objective, man developed self-preservation mechanisms, went to live in society and created rules to control the community life. In the West and in the late eighteenth century, with the creation of states as we know them today, the monopoly of security, among other powers, has been preserved untouched until the last quarter of this century. With the bankruptcy of the welfare state and the rise of the regulatory state, many of the essential tasks for the community have also been carried out by private companies or institutions, including education, health care and security. Although not easy, education and health care have been more opened to be managed by the private sector. Instead, the privatization of the security sector has seen much more resistance. Still, especially in the West, the states have delegated some of the security competences to private companies. Portugal is no exception to the rule and, after a few years of unregulated activity, in 1982 was published the first law regulating the private security. After the initial stages of development (evolution and maturation), which lasted until the early years of the 2000‘s, the private security now seems to have reached maturity. Today, now with a new legal system, composed by Law no. 34/2013, of 16 may, its regulations and complementary legislation, now private security encompasses other activities and competences - becoming, an increasingly complement to public safety. It has also increased the pre-requisites and control mechanisms for private security companies, and strengthened the rules that limit their scope of activity.

A importância da Polícia Municipal na segurança

The challenge of this work is to assess the importance of the municipal police in improving the safety of citizens, if gauging from this reality through contributions from the Municipal Police Guimarães. The IV Constitutional Review in 1997, enabled the Portuguese municipalities creating administrative police bodies. These services, known as Municipal Police, have gradually come up in several municipalities. Currently the Municipal Police have their fundamental legal regulations of Law No. 19/2004 of 20 May, which, according to the Portuguese Constitution provides that these must be seen as municipal services, which act in a space territorially delimited, which corresponds to the municipality that each belongs. Under Article 237, paragraph 3, of the Constitution, the Municipal Police are municipal services, which shall cooperate in the maintenance of public order and protection of local communities, acting in cooperation with the security forces, public security functions. The safety concept has been taking an increasingly significant importance within the population. Is also no doubt say that, currently, insecurity affects all of society and is a major concern of law enforcement authorities. To find suitable answers we found that there are several studies on these subjects. In order to be able to make our contribution, text looks us on this subject, having had the support of the Municipal Police Guimarães, in the preparation of this work. Thus, based on a survey, they were sounded out, as privileged actors, agents of the Municipal Police Guimarães, in order to know their perceptions with regard to security issues faced in the context of security. We understand ask them to answer in particular the following questions: What are the most facilitators situations of crime? How important is the Municipal Police Guimarães in crime prevention? What are the strategies for prevention of incivilities? What other skills that can be conferred upon the Municipal Police? The results obtained allowed us to conclude that incivilities facilitate the occurrence of crimes and that the Municipal Police may have a more active role in the security of the population. If you were given other duties, in addition to that already have, the Municipal Police could reach another level of effectiveness. However we understand that any change to the tasks of this police need a serious and profound reflection, to find complementary alternatives with the security forces, which does not conflict with current assignments of any of the parties or with the interests of citizens.