| 4. In which ways is the initiative creative and innovative?
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Essentially, in Brazil, the Military Police forces only carry out order maintenance operations, mainly through ostensive policing actions. Often the Military police activity, ends up driving the community away from the police, our initiative has sought to reduce the distance between the military settled in the favela and the local community.
In the Nordeste-Amaralina we try to encourage a police force that is not limited to guaranteeing law and order, seeking a police approach, focused on preventing young people from getting involved with drugs and criminal activities instead of just arresting them when they already have turned into criminals.
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| 5. Who implemented the initiative and what is the size of the population affected by this initiative?
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Initiatives were implemented, through the authorization of the general command of the Military Police, by the police of the 40th Independent Company of Military Police of the state of Bahia, through the Quality and Telematics Section (SQT) and its Communitary Security Bases (BCS). The complex of favelas in the Nordeste of Amaralina is composed of about 120 thousand families and the initiative directly affecting in the year 2016, 2500 people mostly children and teenagers.
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| 6. How was the strategy implemented and what resources were mobilized?
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The first problem addressed was the lack of trust between the residents and the Military Police. Firsty, in 2011, three "Communitary Security Bases - BCS" were created, subordinated to the 40th Independent Military Police Company - 40th CIPM, with the aim of permeating the presence Police in the favela for allowing the community to get closer and getting know the Military Police structure and its members. The residents did not want the police presence in the neighborhood as the military did not want to approach the community, there is a culture in the Brazilian police, where the police are limited to carry out operations to combat crime through armed intervention, initially the military were trained to carry out social actions brought by the Military.
With the progressive acceptance of the idea that the Military police can carry out actions of a social nature, both by the favela residents and by the military itself, the development of social programs led by volunteer Military personnel began, and they began to participate in community life beginning to take measures to prevent crime in the Nordeste of Amaralina. After four years of a policy in approaching the Military Police with the community in 2016, a number of projects were carried out with emphasis on: (i) the holding of the "1st Youth Games in the Nordeste of Amaralina", a tournament that ended the year in which children From 10 to 18 years old were able to compete for the first time in one or many of the sports activities that were developed during the year (soccer, volleyball, boxing, swimming, karate and athletics) for a week, youths organized by teams, A contest, winning medals for the first time in their lives; (ii) school reinforcement provided at the BCS's, with two basic objectives, first to act in a complementary way to the school activities, allowing a better use of the students, together with the school and for the adolescents, study activities aimed at entering colleges and Universities through In ENEM (National High School Exam); (iii) the program "With the police taking them out of the favela and bringing them to see the theater / cinema" because the community has neither a theater nor a cinema and due to the social isolation of which the inhabitants of the favelas are probably not even a resident of the community, without the help of an agent will watch a play or watch a movie, in this program the Military organize excursions with the interested residents to leave the favela to have access, even for just one day, to entertainment and culture options, the Military volunteers not only organize but also accompany the excursions (also with the aim of protecting the favelados from possible acts of symbolic violence) ... The state government of Bahia indirectly finances the actions through the relocation of some Military to the social activities and eventually provides transportation in vehicles of the corporation; In addition all other sources of resources come from donations from local merchants and all the rest is financed with the resources of the Military involved. Examples: During the Youth Games, several children competed barefoot, as they did not have sneakers; to solve this problems, the female Militaries (and those with the small foot) gave up their shoes, leaving the Military polices barefoot during the event. When it is necessary for the Mlitary to travel through the city (to book cultural activities, to contact other secretariats, to present the initiative to society), it is carried out with the vehicles of the military themselves at their own expenses or in the making of "kits" for the acquisition of materials necessary for the activities, when these are not provided by neither a secretariat.
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| 7. Who were the stakeholders involved in the design of the initiative and in its implementation?
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The main actor of this initiative is in fact the Military Police of the State of Bahia, for the implementation of the BCS program along with the permission and assignment of human resources. However, I emphasize that the most active organization for social improvement in the favela complex is the 40th CIPM through its Quality and Telematics Section (SQT), which together with the subordinate BCS (Nordeste, Santa Cruz and Chapada) Implemented. The following Military Police officers contributed significantly to the initiative: By SQT, Cap PM Flavia; Ten PM Ingrid; Sd PM Pine; Sd PM Gildo; Sd PM Eloi; Sd PM Vianna; Sd PM Maite; By the BCS, Cap PM Elder and her commanders, Cap PM Sheila and her commanders, Cap MP Eva Cachoeira and her commandos.
The following private institutions participated in the programs for the approximation and inclusion of young people: Faculty of Technology and Sciences,
During the accomplishment of the sport activities in the modalities of athletics the Brazilian Army through the Military College of Salvador was fundamental yielding to Military Police its Olympic track.
The following citizens: the teachers of the colleges situated in the favela complex under the leadership of Professor Pimenta.
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| 8. What were the most successful outputs and why was the initiative effective?
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The growing demand and interest of school students in participating in the academic and sports activities organized by the Military Police, with the expectation of a 50% increase in the number of young people enrolled in the initiative; reduction of police incidents within neighborhood schools, since the beginning of the policy of approaching Military Police and the community, there has been a progressive reduction of the presence of criminal organizations within local schools, as well as a decrease in the prevalence of drugs among young people, especially youngsters who participate in the social activities developed by the Military Police. Improving the self-esteem of the young people involved in the program, there is a greater interest of the young people in the formal job market, especially in the higher-level professions which require admission to a university / college; a reduction in the number of armed clashes between the Military Police and organized crime in the neighborhood, signaling to a clear, but still modest, evacuation of the organizations responsible for local drug trafficking.
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| 9. What were the main obstacles encountered and how were they overcome?
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The main obstacles encountered can be divided into structural difficulties of the Military Police and resistance from the community in participating / approaching the activities provided by the military police. Among the institutional difficulties are: (i) lack of will of the majority of security agents to carry out activities considered of a non-military nature; (ii) the absence of an institutional guideline with its own budget and the complete absence of military obligations to carry out the activities contemplated by the initiative. On the side of the resistance of the community: (i) the influence of organized crime in trying to prevent the carrying out of sports and educational activities available to the community, (ii) lack of confidence of the residents in the person of the police and (iii) For the performance of sports activities.
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