A atuação da Polícia Militar em casos de violência doméstica no município de Imperatriz / MA

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to describe and understand the action of the Military Police in cases of domestic violence against women in the city of Imperatriz-MA. The research method adopted was participant observation using as a tool two questionnaires applied to police officers from the 3rd BPM. From there, it was analyzed how the police understood their actions in occurrences of this type. Two distinct groups were interviewed: Ordinary Policing and Patrol Maria da Penha, with questions about their perception of the aggressor, the woman and the role that the MP should play. Respondents revealed their individual perspective to make decisions at the scene of the occurrence. The research also showed that military police training is lacking in content aimed at this type of situation and focuses on a militarized and combat-oriented curriculum. The perspective taken from ordinary policing is more legalistic, it seeks to end the occurrence with a dialogue between the parts of macho opinions and discourses, and a revictimizing posture of women was evident. The officers of the Maria da Penha Patrol demonstrate a more humanist perspective, understanding the situation of vulnerability of women acting in a police service that does not victimize them. Differences and similarities were also observed in the police officers' reports based on other studies: perception of the victim's financial and emotional dependence that impedes the continuation of the complaint and the "scare" that some women want the police to give the aggressor. Finally, the practice of listening to victims by the police was also observed. And it is from the victim's report and not from the witnesses or the aggressor that the law enforcement officer takes the measures he deems to be the most appropriate, since there is no standard institutional conduct imposed by the military police on all police officers.