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Brazil has the lowest number of murders in 14 years
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A decrease in the main security indicators, improved relations with
states and municipalities, efforts to curb crimes against women and
children, a decrease in deforestation in the Amazon and a commitment
to the policy of removing illegal weapons from circulation. Flávio
Dino, Minister of Justice and Public Security, spoke at the Planalto
Palace alongside President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other
ministers and specialists about the sector during the first 13 months
of the current Federal Government administration. Speaking to
journalists on Wednesday, January 31, he stated that one of his main
concerns was the consolidation of the Single Public Security System.
> **_These statistics are the translation and concretization of this
> system. Public security is an issue that encompasses the whole of
> society, but the biggest victims are precisely the poorest, so it's
> a social and institutional issue too"_**
>
> _Flávio Dino, _Minister of Justice and Public Security__
"These statistics are the translation and concretization of this
system. Public security is an issue that encompasses the whole of
society, but the biggest victims are precisely the poorest, so it's
also a social and institutional issue too", said Dino.
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According to the balance sheet, Brazil ended 2023 with the lowest
record of Intentional Lethal Violent Crimes (ILVC) since 2010. In
2023, 40,429 ILVCs were recorded. Compared to 2022, which recorded
42,190 ILVCs, the decrease is 4.17%, which represents almost 2,000
Brazilian lives saved.
ILVCs are considered to be intentional homicide, robbery resulting in
death, femicide and bodily injury followed by death. The data was
entered into SINESP, the national public security data system, and
sent to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security by the 26 states
and the Federal District.
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**FEDERATIVE PACT** \- Dino stressed that there has been a 13%
increase in the amount invested in public security. The ministry
donated more than BRL 389 million in equipment, vehicles, weapons and
drones to the states, in an effort to improve and expand the local
work of the military and civil police. The minister also celebrated
significant decreases in 2023 compared to 2022 in indices such as
vehicle theft (down 9.78%), cargo theft (down 11%) and the 40.91%
decrease in crimes against financial institutions, which according to
the minister has an important symbolic dimension because the funds
stolen from these banks feed the so-called "new cangaço".
**PER DIEMS AND OPERATIONS** \- In addition, more than 873,000 per
diems were adopted for police in the states to structure and carry out
integrated operations, an investment of BRL 262 million. Operation
Peace alone, focused on reducing homicides in 12 states, had an
investment of BRL 123 million.
In addition to this effort, the new policy of restricting firearms,
which has reduced their circulation in national territory, has led to
a 25.5% increase in seizures of illegal weapons. There were 10,600
seized in 2023 compared to 8,500 seized in 2022.
Minister Flávio Dino reiterated that it is necessary to encourage
penal alternatives and to understand that punishment is not synonymous
with imprisonment. "Prison should be reserved for crimes committed
with violence and serious threats to people. The idea that we have a
doctrinal position that is weak in the fight against organized crime
is false. What we advocate is the proportional use of force, in which
more serious crimes receive an equally serious criminal response," he
said.
**HUMANISM** \- At the end of the event, President Lula emphasized
that one of the challenges of public policies in the area of security
is to bet on the possibility of forming a new human being, based on
education, family and humanism, and to fight organized crime
intelligently. Lula thanked Flávio Dino for his time in the ministry
(the minister is leaving the executive branch to take up a seat on the
Supreme Court) and wished luck to Ricardo Lewandowski, who will take
up the position in the ministry from Thursday, February 1.
"We want to see if we can humanize the fight against petty crime and
play very hard to tackle the so-called international organized crime
industry. It has airplanes, ships, boats, yachts, industry,
everything. It has the power to make decisions, to influence
governments and countries, and that's what we have to tackle. And then
we have to invest in a lot of intelligence because catching these
people is always more complicated," commented the president.
**ROBBERY RESULTING IN DEATH** \- Cases of robbery resulting in death
fell by 23.64% in the country last year, when 953 such incidents were
recorded, compared to 2022, when the number reached 1,248.
**CORRUPTION** \- In 2023, 227 anti-corruption operations were
launched by the Federal Police, resulting in 147 arrests, 2,091 search
and seizure warrants and BRL 897 million in goods and valuables
seized.
**AMAZON** \- 182 operations were launched in the Legal Amazon, in the
states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Roraima,
Rondônia and Tocantins. There was a 49.9% decrease in deforestation in
the region.
**GLO** \- With the aim of strengthening the fight against organized
crime, President Lula signed a decree in November 2023 for the
Guarantee of Law and Order (GLO). Preventive and repressive actions
were carried out in the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Itaguaí and in the
Bays of Guanabara and Sepetiba, in Rio; in the Brazilian area of Lake
Itaipu, in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná; in the Port of
Santos and its maritime accesses, in the state of São Paulo; in
addition to the Tom Jobim International Airport, in the state of Rio
de Janeiro, and the São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport.
From November 6, 2023 to January 23, 2024, 109,437 vehicles were
searched, 286,234 passengers were searched and around 9,100 cargo
trucks were inspected. The federal government also seized 77 tons of
drugs and arrested 1,017 people during the period. The total value of
the decapitalization of organized crime through the GLO reached BRL
1.4 billion.
**FEMINICIDE** \- The main rates of violence in Brazil fell in the 12
months of 2023 compared to the same period last year. Indicators of
femicide fell by 1.86%. In 2022 there were 1,449 cases of this type in
Brazil, compared to 1,422 last year. Throughout 2023, the National
Program for Public Security with Citizenship (Pronasci 2) was
launched. The aim is to work, in cooperation with states,
municipalities and the Federal District, with the participation of
families and the community in programs, projects and actions of
technical and financial assistance and social mobilization.
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