{"id":1879,"date":"2011-09-16T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:08:22","slug":"beltrames-remarks-at-seminar-upp-a-new-public-safety-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Beltrame’s Remarks at Seminar “UPP: a new public security model?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 14, 2011–The State of Rio’s Public Security Secretary, Jos\u00e9 Mariano Beltrame, spoke at a Get\u00falio Vargas Foundation (FGV) law school seminar on the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)<\/a> of Rio.<\/p>\n

The event, entitled \u201cUPP: a new public safety model?\u201d was co-sponsored by the Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em> newspaper, and also featured Professor Julita Lemgrumber, a sociologist at the Center for Security and Citizenship Studies<\/a> at C\u00e2ndido Mendes University who presented her research<\/a> results; Perc\u00edlia da Silva Pereira, Babil\u00f4nia<\/a> community leader; Ricardo Henriques, president of Rio’s Urbanism Institute<\/a> (Instituto Pereira Passos); Luci Oliveira, research coordinator at the Center for Justice and Society at FGV Law<\/a>; and Lucia Cabral, community leader in the Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Secretary Beltrame spoke in a quiet, determined voice to a captivated audience. His confident manner and tone expressed his conviction that the pacification program was working, despite news of corruption, sustained trafficker operations, and continued violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are places where [the homicide rate] has dropped to zero…homicide influences human development…\u201d Beltrame defended the process of pacification, and was adamant that the pacification program would be a permanent fixture, regardless of himself, making a distinction between himself and the office he currently holds, of the Secretary of Public Security.<\/p>\n

Beltrame also discussed the pace of the pacification process: \u201cI do not intend to launch more UPP communities if I am unable to build foundations first…we\u2019ve been adjusting certain things since we started, that are just not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beltrame called for a complete transformation of the Rio Military police at the seminar–even to the point of changing their \u201cwar chants,\u201d songs used to motivate recruits. He drew a hopeful picture of the future for the UPPs in Rio, and, while he acknowledged the difficult road ahead, he exhibited faith and determination in their ultimate success.<\/p>\n

Perc\u00edlia da Silva Pereira, a community leader in Babil\u00f4nia (one of the first four favelas to be pacified), sat on the panel with Beltrame. As she gave her account of how the community has been transformed since the UPP entered, she paused to thank the Secretary numerous times for the UPPs–and the sense of security that has stemmed from their presence in Babil\u00f4nia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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