A cooperação interagências na redução dos crimes violentos na fronteira oeste do Brasil com o Paraguai: o caso do Conselho Institucional de Segurança de Dourados – MS (COISED), no período de 2008 a 2022

Abstract

In recent years, organized crime, such as the First Command of the Capital (PCC) in the state of São Paulo and the Red Command (CV) in the state of Rio de Janeiro, have expanded their illicit activities to the western border between Brazil and Paraguay. This presence was due to a number of issues, such as ease of movement in all modes (land, air and river), as well as the cooptation of people living in the region and also the performance of corrupt public agents. In addition, the border between Brazil and Paraguay provides privileged access to some of the largest international drug producers and logistics hub in the world, given, for example, that Paraguay is the largest producer of marijuana in Latin America. However, the confrontation of these criminal organizations requires the State to act multidimensional, that is, in the social, political, economic and environmental fields. In this context, there are a number of initiatives to tackle transnational illicit and, consequently, reduce violent crimes in the border area between Brazil and Paraguay, among which the Institutional Security Council of Dourados - MS (COISED) stands outlocated in the city of Dourados in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. In view of the increase in violent crimes in the border area between Brazil and Paraguay, this dissertation sought to answer the following question: How can interagency cooperation between Public Security and National Defense agencies contribute to the reduction of violent crimes on Brazil’s western border with Paraguay, notably in the Grande Dourados region? The general scope of this work is to present the evolution and importance of interagency actions in the region of the western border of Brazil with Paraguay to reduce crime, especially COISED. As for the method, it was used the inductive, where it starts from a specific case, that is, the public policies proposed by COISED, with the objective of achieving a general rule (LAKATOS; MARCONI, 2003, p. 86), that is, the creation of councils in the border, so that there is greater integration between the institutions, thereby reducing crime. Therefore, a case study on COISED was made, which was backed by data and official documents provided by the Secretariat of Justice and Public Security of Mato Grosso do Sul (SEJUSP/ MS) and COISED/ MS. In this dissertation, the following argument is presented: interagency cooperation initiatives, such as COISED, allow for a more effective and efficient fight in the face of organized crime, as it creates a space and an ambience of cooperation, trust and information exchange between partner institutions and their representatives. With this, an important reduction in crime rates was achieved, such as a decrease in intentional homicides and theft/ thefts, greater seizure of illicit drugs and contraband cigarettes (SEJUSP/ MS, 2023).