CIVIL POLICE AGENTS AND REGISTRIES OF THE STATE OF BAHIA, PROFILE, TRAINING AND POLICE PRACTICE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CLASSES OF THE 1997 AND 2013 PUBLIC TENDER
Professional qualification; police practice; public security.
This study discusses the connections between the training of civil police officers (Bahia), and its applicability in daily work, from the perspective of graduates of police training courses in Bahia, carried out by the Police Academy (ACADEPOL). Based on the scientific research of the 2013 class, in continuation of a previous analysis carried out with the 1997 class, it reaffirms the mismatch between knowledge acquired in the academies, for the performance of police work and the reality in which the daily work of the police is carried out. However, it ponders the mismatch with the evidence of the dimensions, professional, personal and quality of training, in the three areas of affectation, which directly concern improvements in the performance of police work; innovative experiences in a professional context, based on reflections and investigations carried out during the course. A collective understanding of the social role of the police and a view on the importance of training and valuing the police force has not yet been developed. They are referential questions for the construction of an institution of democratic values, therefore, aimed at meeting collective interests, as opposed to defending the interests and ideologies of governments. The empirical research of a qualitative nature used a semi-structured interview script, carried out through the web, using the Google Form (Google Form's) as an instrument, with 28 personalized questions and multiple choice answers for the 1997 class, and 25 questions for the 2013 class, sent via the Google platform, or access via Gmail, according to the email address in the reference. The choice of classes resulted from the 1997 experience, the last with high school education to join the institution, while the 2013 class was the first to join the Civil Police, with higher education. The results of the training of civil police officers (Bahia) and its application in the daily work showed a relative connection between the training received and professional practice, with greater discrepancies in the 2017 class, with a clear departure from the democratic vision and a rupture in the understanding of essence of the meaning of what is "discipline", "justice" or "public security", allied to the defense of rights, yours or others.