Anyone being friendly with police could pay a high price later, he said. “If you ask the residents here what is better - the government or the parallel power - I bet you the huge majority will say the parallel power until they get used to the new reality,” said Jose Mario dos Santos, the head of the residents’ association in Santa Marta.Īndre Luiz, a 40-year-old resident of Santa Marta, said life had improved, but he recalled how the police occupied the slum for six months a few years ago and then left. Department Administrator: Debra Dunning (40) AGM Labor & Employee Relations - LaShanda Dawkins.
Today, uniformed officers patrol our stations, parking lots, buses and trains. MARTA police officers are fully sworn and certified under the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council. Rio’s police shot dead 1,330 people in 2007 and regularly draw condemnation from human rights groups for their tactics, including arbitrary killings. Department Administrator: Leann Keepler (40) AGM Human Resources - Kesi Dorner, MPA, PHR. Founded in 1977, the MARTA Police Department currently consists of approximately 320 sworn officers, 50 Protective Specialists, and 57 civilian employees. Underlying the difficulties are residents’ deep mistrust and fear of the police and gangs after years of brutal urban conflict. The City of God slum, made famous by the 2002 film of the same name, has also been occupied since November and is due for community police.Īnd, in the occupied slums, residents and rights groups have complained the police are clamping down on civil liberties, banning local transport and dance parties that are linked to the drug trade and carrying out more arbitrary searches. “We don’t want police anymore who enter from time to time without knowing who is good and who is bad, treating everyone as if they were the enemy,” Lula told residents last month at German, a much bigger slum complex that is also due for new police posts.Ībout 1,600 police have so far passed through the community training course and will be deployed to more slums this year. Marta Encuentros con Lderes Textos del Papa Viajes Vaticano Benedicto.
The new policy combined with an influx of public works is being backed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in an attempt after six years in power to tackle the chronic problem of violent slums in Rio and other big Brazilian cities. , Springfield Police Department officers. Paid about $220 more a month than their peers, they also have different orders - to get to know residents rather than just arresting them. Santa Marta, a steep maze of shacks under the gaze of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue, now has three police posts staffed by 120 mostly young officers trained in “community policing.” New recruits, they are relatively unmarked by the brutality and corruption elsewhere in the force.
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