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The elected governor of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel (PSC), said Monday that Rio de Janeiro's dependence on the federal government in the area of public security "must stop". He indicated that he was studying alternatives if the GLO operation, which allows the use of armed forces in police functions in the state, was not extended.
Among the alternatives cited by Witzel, contract
Statements arrive three days after President-elect Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) has declared that he would not extend federal intervention in the security of Rio . "If I want to talk about GLO, I will rely on Parliament to sign it," Bolsonaro said last Friday, criticizing what he sees as a lack of a legal framework allowing the military to serve.
The intervention, which began on February 16 and ends on December 31, is the transfer of the Public Security Management of the Government of Rio for the purpose of l 39; ;Union. GLO, in force since July 2017, allows the military to act in the streets with the power of the police. Although they are currently in force at the same time, one does not depend on the other.
"I can not wait for something that may not happen, so I have to prepare myself, wait without having an alternative, so we prepare an alternative," said Witzel about the possibility of renewing the GLO.
"The state of Rio de Janeiro has to walk alone, he said he would like the union to extend the GLO by at least six months, to train more police officers and set up a system of surveillance by camera.
Witzel stated that, if there was no extension, Rio could hire retired police officers to participate in the Seguro Presente program, which today allows police officers and Reservists on leave to conduct street patrols.According to the Security Secretariat, they are paid by the Supplementary Services Plan (RAS) and the program sends about 1,000 additional police every day to the streets.
Governor Elected also said that the solution for the security of Rio was not the solution in the increase of the police force, but in the electronic surveillance of the streets by security cameras.
has been also announced its intention to integrate this network of cameras to a software allowing to recognize in real time the stolen registration plates, in particular the faces of wanted criminals, and to install 30 000 cameras on the roads and even under the uniform of the police. The system would then incite the police to take steps to stop the suspects
Witzel said he would rely on a system that already existed in England and would have worked. However, the British facial recognition system is still in the testing phase [sendo usado apenas em eventos esporádicos e não de forma sistemática] and has caused considerable controversy in the United Kingdom for allegedly infringing individual freedoms.
In declaring that Rio must walk alone, Witzel criticized the system. federal taxes. "Today, the state of Rio de Janeiro collects billions of dollars in federal taxes and gets a small percentage," he said.
He claimed that he badumed the state of corruption, while baderting that the past had been marked by the arrest of Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão (MDB) and by the former
"The lbaditude of the past government has pbaded, inside the prisons," he said.
"This moral weariness makes people come to this business meeting to tell them that the government will now be moral, it will be ethical, to say what is obvious, "he said.
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