A gestão pública de segurança através da política pública do Programa Educacional de Resistência às Drogas – PROERD em São Borja

Abstract

The present study assesses whether Public Security Management, through the preventive public policies developed by the Military Brigade in the implementation of the Drug Resistance and Violence Education Program (PROERD), has reduced violence in the city of São Borja from 2007 to 2017, raising data on the implementation of the program with regard to the number of participants, beneficiary schools and police occurrences to see if the results are positive regarding the decrease of juvenile crime within the period studied. The qualitative methodology was used when the bibliographic and quantitative research was carried out through the collection of information provided by the Military Brigade and the primary data on police occurrences of the Public Security Secretariat of Rio Grande do Sul. The work of the Military Brigade happens not only through of the use of reprimand, but also by the use of public policies to anticipate and prevent crimes, such as PROERD, whose purpose is prevention and reduction of drug use and violence in the school community. With the program, the Military Brigade of São Borja uses public resources in the area of public security to reduce violence by working closely with schools, through trained military police officers, enabling integration with the parents of the students through lectures and courses specific. It can be concluded that public security policies can be considered as the main preventive combat against crime, capable of changing the current framework of Brazilian public security.