BRAZIL

FEDERAL POLICE of BRAZIL

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Brazil has several different police forces, each with its own ranks.

At a federal level, there are the

 Federal Police (Portuguese: Polícia Federal, the equivalent to the FBI),

 the Federal Highway Police (Polícia Rodoviária Federal) and

 the Federal Railway Police (Polícia Ferroviária Federal).

At a state level, there are the

 Military Police (Polícia Militar, a gendarmerie type force unlike the military
police of many other countries,
 the Brazilian equivalent of which is the Army Police) and

 the Civil Police (Polícia Civil).

At a city level, there is the

 Municipal Guard (Guarda Municipal).
 In terms of staff, the Military Police and the Civil Police are the most important,
although in terms of headlines and prestige, the Federal Police concentrates most of
the media attention.

Civil Police - are responsible for investigating crimes.

The Civil Police are organized accordingly to functions.

FUNCTIONS:
 Scrivener (escrivão) - is the lower rank position responsible for the internal
work inside the police premises (e.g., collecting witness statements).
 Detective (detetive) or investigator (investigador) - is the position
responsible for actions outside the premises (e.g., investigating the
circumstances of a crime).
 Delegate (delegado, similar to captain in the US) - is the senior official
(required to have a law degree) responsible for the lower ranks and for
coordinating the whole work (investigations) of the Civil Police.
Military Police - are responsible for preventing them, although it is not rare to see their
functions clashing and every so often they have open confrontations.

The ranks listed below are valid for the state military police agencies (such
as PMMG, PMESP, PMERJ and others) and are listed, respectively, from higher to lower
ranks:
 Comandante geral (colonel) (colonel commandant of military police)

 Coronel (colonel)

 Tenente-coronel (lieutenant-colonel)

 Major (major)

 Capitão (captain)

 1º tenente (1st lieutenant)

 2º tenente (2nd lieutenant)

 Aspirante-a-oficial (cadet, student rank)

 Subtenente (under-lieutenant)

 1º sargento (1st sergeant)

 2º sargento (2nd sergeant)

 3º sargento (3rd sergeant)

 Cabo (corporal)

 Soldado de 1ª classe (private 1st class)

 Soldado de 2ª classe (private 2nd class, student rank)

The 2nd class private and the cadet
- are considered to be students in the formation courses and have no street policing duties
(except in a very few cases, as probationary tours).
- Despite closely resembling the rank structure within the Brazilian army, there is no rank
of general in the military police forces, as the Military Police is slotted under the army control in
case of war, with its colonels reporting to general officers in the service branch.

Military police
- also consists of SWAT units, like, BOPE, Rio de Janeiro's Batalhão de Operações
Policiais Especiais (Battalion of Special Police Operations), and COE, Comandos e Operações
Especiais (Commands and Special Operations) from São Paulo.
- Also there is a anti-riot unit called Batalhão de Choque (Chock Battallion) and São
Paulo's specialized police, ROTA, Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar (Tobias de Aguiar Ostensive
Rounds), and a motorcycles battalion, A Ronda Ostensiva Com Apoio de Motocicletas (Ostensitive
Ronda Supported by Motorcycles).
- Police in São Paulo also use Helicopteros Aguia (Eagle helicopters). As a general rule
every state's Military Police is called Policia Militar, except Rio Grande do Sul's police, which are
called as the Brigada Militar (Military Brigade).
- It have a drug abuse resistance education program, PROERD, or Programa Educacional
de Resistência às Drogas e à Violência (Educational Program on Drug Resistance and Violence) that
teaches youth about not using drugs and alcohol.
- Also, some police cars are designed to patrol schools, and those cars are painted to say
"Patrulha Escolar" (School Patrol).
- There are also the Policia Ambiental (Environmental Police), or Policia
Florestal (Forest Police), the canine units, and water police formations like maritime, fluvial and
coastal police units under either the military police or the civil police.
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