Public security and the military police training: human rights as a strategy of institutional control

Abstract

In this article we present how Human Rights are used in the military police training as a strategy of institutional control apart from their conscientizing role. This use aims at police practice for citizenship. In order to do so, we focus on the evolution of the curriculum of the Curso de Formação de Oficiais in Paraíba to confront the dialogue between students and instructors. Above all, these changes aim at police training. This institutional strategy intends to control students in training, whose internal culture is based on militarism. Thereby, the military action for the proposed “humanization” does not provide students with the necessary critical thinking to identify the meaning of change based on Human Rights.