O nível de escolaridade dos integrantes das agências policiais e um paralelo com a Polícia Militar do Estado do Amazonas

Abstract

The level of schooling of public security agents is a recurring theme in the current democratic state of law, where less use of force and more use of technique is expected. In this way, this article discusses the theoretical currents that attest the benefits of the superior level for the public security agents. The objective of this research was to identify the level of education as a factor of improvement in the profile of the members of the police agencies and as such aspect positively influences the work of these professionals, besides knowing the Brazilian panorama of the military police about the educational factor and, discuss the reality in the state of Amazonas. The research has a quantitative-descriptive character and was used exclusively from the bibliographic survey. It was possible to identify a movement of improvement of the level of education of the military police that concentrates exclusively in the career of officers; at the regional level, access multidoors in the state of Amazonas had been identified, and the upper level did not prevail as a single requirement. It was concluded that - in spite of the innumerable advantages it grants to the professional - the superior level in Brazil is not yet unison as a requirement for the career of the police agencies.