Police Education and Training in a Global Society: A Brazilian Overview

Abstract

Police education and training is the main prerequisite to enable law enforcement agencies to provide a more secure environment to the community. It has a positive effect on the quality of life in our society. In this sense, police work is antagonistic because while democracy demands freedom, police are asked to restrain outlaw behaviors. The ability to maintain such complex and dynamic behaviors within certain limits is the ultimate in policing. In order to acquire the knowledge needed, police officers must develop their skills in a multicultural learning pattern where the universities and the police academies can join forces to play a protagonist role. This paper aims to show that university participation in police education is essential, not only to improve and broaden the curricula but to promote international cooperation by disseminating global training standards on basic common topics from human rights to computer‐related investigations.

Keywords:

• Brazil
• Police
• Education
• Training
• University
• Global

Notes

Correspondence to: Paulo Rogério Lino, Rua das Garças, 111, Canoas, RS, 92320‐830, Brazil. Email: [email protected]

• Federal Constitution, 1988. Article 144 The public safety, State duty, everyone's right and responsibility, is executed to preserve the public order and for the protection of the people and property through the following agencies:

• I—Federal Police;

• II—Federal Highway Patrol;

• III—Federal Railway Patrol;

• IV—Civil Police;

• V—Military Police and Military Firemen.

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Paulo Rogério Lino

Correspondence to: Paulo Rogério Lino, Rua das Garças, 111, Canoas, RS, 92320‐830, Brazil. Email: [email protected]