The Territorialized Division Of Police Activity

a Profile Of The Performance Of The Military Police In Belém

Abstract

The present work aimed to understand the Military Police’s profile in the city of Belém through the differences in this agency’s proceed according to its territorial division. After exposing the main aspects, first formal and then subjective, of police proceed, the development culminates with reflections on the main aspects of this action that contradict each other between the declared speech of the action and the actual practice. Through the inductive method for the approach and comparative for the procedures, it was possible to understand a territorialized profile of action that is directed and distinguished by social markers of difference, applying it to the police in general. The techniques used for the execution consisted of a bibliographical survey and content analysis of semi-structured interviews carried out with agents who work in the Jurunas and Batista Campos neighborhoods. As part of the conclusions reached, the police institution can be seen as an instrument of social control of marginalized groups in terms of race, class and territory, alone or together, through the differentiation of police action according to the neighborhood in which it is located.