![Armed police officer and resident of Parque Proletário, in the Complexo da Penha (Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil)](https://rioonwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/UPP-8-Years-Later-326x245.jpg)
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Pacifying Police Units: Eight Years Later
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Saulo Pereira Guitarães and Bibiana Maia in Portuguese published in Vozerio click here. The first Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) was launched at the end of 2008, in Santa Marta, […]