Law enforcement and social services program in Brazil
Composition of a unit of the Polícia Pacificadora (UPP), here on the occasion of the ceremony for the change of command of the units.
The Pacifying Police Unit (Portuguese: Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora, also translated as Police Pacification Unit), abbreviated UPP, is a law enforcement and social services program pioneered in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which aims to reclaim territories, most commonly favelas, controlled by gangs of drug dealers. The program was created and implemented by State Public Security Secretary José Mariano Beltrame [pt], with the backing of Rio Governor Sérgio Cabral. The stated goal of Rio's government is to install 40 UPPs by 2014. By May 2013, 231 favelas had come under the UPP umbrella.[needs update] The UPP program scored initial success expelling gangs, and won broad praise. But the expensive initiative expanded too far, too fast into dozens of favelas as state finances cratered, causing a devastating backslide that enabled gangs to recover some of their lost grip.[1]
UPP sought to implement "community-oriented policing" (in contrast to militarized policing).[2] According to one study, the effectiveness of UPP depended a lot on how preexisting criminal gangs were organized in any given territory.[2] In territories where criminal gangs effectively reduced violence and maintained order, UPP's presence was seen as undesirable by the community.[2] However, in territory where gangs did not restrain crime and violence, UPP officers were perceived by the community as legitimate.[2]
^"Rio de Janeiro police move to regain control of some favelas". AP NEWS. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
^ abcdMagaloni, Beatriz; Franco-Vivanco, Edgar; Melo, Vanessa (2020). "Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro". American Political Science Review. 114 (2): 552–572. doi:10.1017/S0003055419000856. ISSN 0003-0554. S2CID 229170858.
and 18 Related for: Pacifying Police Unit information
The PacifyingPoliceUnit (Portuguese: Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora, also translated as Police Pacification Unit), abbreviated UPP, is a law enforcement...
(Brazilian police militias), all of the favelas in Rio's South Zone and key favelas in the North Zone are now managed by PacifyingPoliceUnits, known as...
community policing of the favelas under the PacifyingPoliceUnit program are staffed by new recruits coming straight from the PacifyingPoliceUnitpolice academy...
control by a government over a population impacted by violent crime. PacifyingPoliceUnit (Rio State, Brazil) Other meanings: Violent Pacification an album...
inspired in part by the favela. Sérgio Cabral Rio de Janeiro PacifyingPoliceUnit Community policing "Bairro: Rocinha". Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro. Archived...
for drug charges. Following his arrest, Rocinha was occupied by a PacifyingPoliceUnit. Journalist and historian Misha Glenny has written the biography...
2008 the control of Dona Marta was turned to civil police forces when Rio's first PacifyingPoliceUnit was established there. Between 2008 and 2013 the...
Pacifying Police Units, including the death of police officers in the communities. As of 2015, PacifyingPoliceUnits (UPPs) of Rio de Janeiro are no longer useful...
the North Zone of Rio. Region is being prepared to receive the PacifyingPoliceUnit (UPP), Brazilian Marine Corps will provide support with 21 armored...
Janeiro, on improving public safety in cooperation with the local PacifyingPoliceUnit. The program on Global Food Security, in collaboration with the...
Progressive Party, a political party in South Korea Other PacifyingPoliceUnit, policing and law enforcement program in Rio de Janeiro Ultimate++, an...
Despite years of violent conflict with Brazilian police and deterrent efforts such as the PolicePacifyingUnit (UPP), and among conflicts with other criminal...
and culture to all pacified communities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, i.e., those that already have the PacifyingPoliceUnits (UPPs). Created in August...
In policing equipment, a police body camera or wearable camera, also known as body worn video (BWV), body-worn camera (BWC), or body camera, is a wearable...
million a year[when?] until 2014, to the PacifyingPoliceUnits (UPPs) project, a new model of public safety and policing. The funds will be used by the Rio...
Encontro, in addition to part of the Lins Complex. A series of PacifyingPoliceUnits were installed in the neighborhood in 2011, but at the beginning...
upgrade its police force with adequately trained and equipped officers and units, capable of providing the full range of basic and specialized police services...
was the focus of the "Favela Bairro" program and deployment of PacifyingPoliceUnits. Rio has more people living in slums than any other city in Brazil...
Global Information