Inovação na gestão pública: ações de enfrentamento à Cracolândia em João Pessoa com a participação da Unidade de Polícia Ostensiva da Polícia Militar/PB e grupos da Sociedade Civil Organizada

Abstract

The Military Police of Paraíba, through the 1st Battalion of the Military Police located in the Center of João Pessoa is responsible for preventive policing in this area and, as well, throughout the North Zone of the capital. The main objective of this study was to compare violent crimes rates before and after UPO-Recomeçar implantation in the central region of João Pessoa between Duarte Lima, Olímpio Pessoa de Arruda, Irineu Pinto and Arnaldo Coutinho Streets in the neighborhood of the Varadouro. This work can be characterized as a case study, of the participatory research type, of a qualitative and descriptive character, that occurred through a bibliographical research aligned to the documentary research, having as method the PDCA Cycle applied in the Public Administration, more precisely in relation to Public Security. The occurrences measured in this research were passed on by the CIOP-PB, whose whistleblowers registered the crimes through the telephone number 190, specified in the triennium: 2016, 2017 and 2018. Based on the analysis of the results, it can be concluded that the UPO-Recomeçar represents a watershed in relation to criminality in the old cracolândia, Varadouro region, in the Historical Center of the capital of Paraíba, as it is a notable reduction of the crimes registered by the CIOP-PB.