Segurança pública e direitos humanos: novas práticas discursivas na formação e na atuação do policial militar

Abstract

This work analyzes the constructing strategy of a new representation of the military police officer, through new discursive practices, oriented by the respect of human rights, brought to the formation environment of the professional of public security through the National Syllabus Matrix (NSM). To achieve this objective, it was analysed extracts from two guidebooks on police approach, named, ―Police Performance in Protection of the Human Rights of People in Situation of Vulnerability‖ and ―Police Approach‖. From the theoretical point of view, this research is based on the work of Norman Fairclough (1992) and on the Sistemic-Functional Linguistic of Michael Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), mainly the theoretical construct of Transitivity System, in which the sentence is considered as an analysis unit. From this perspective, the text was divided into sentences, which were segmented, and arranged in tables which made possible the identification of the main four transitivity process: material, verbal, mental, and relational, and the roles of the police officers and the citizens in these processes. Amongst other results, the analysis allowed verify the power the military police officer, legally supported, has over the citizens to, for instance, to block their right to come and go, when performing an approach; this conclusion reinsure the importance of human rights discourse during the formation and performance of the military police officer, so that this power does not degenerate into authority abuse and other crimes against the citizen.