Around 60 percent of respondents, residents of Dona Marta lasfavelas and Cidade de Deus, considered the seguridadpersonal and their families has improved since the police took elcontrol of their neighborhoods, according to a survey released today by elcentro Study private Getulio Vargas Foundation.
Half of the residents also felt that the question of improved respect for human rights in the favela, and nearly one hundred 54por said that police violence was reduced.
The vast majority, over 90 percent of losencuestados, would like to keep this model formaindeterminada and spreads to other of the 900 favelas in Rio deJaneiro living the third of six million inhabitants the second largest city in Brazil.
Some neighbors also complained of persistent casosde extortion by police outside this system called deseguridad Community Patrol.
The government of Rio de Janeiro octubrede established this model in 2008, starting in the Dona Marta favela, a slum miserableencaramada on a steep slope of the mountain of Corcovado, ALOS feet of the statue of Christ the Redeemer on acomodadobarrio Botafogo.
The model has spread to four others already barriospobres these.
In February this year police applied to Cidade de Deus and aBatam, both in depauperada the west side of town, and in June at Babylon and Chapeu Mangueira, crowning a hill laturistica on Copacabana beach.
In this type of operation, the police carry out raids diariashasta to expel the armed gangs who have decades instaladasen favelas extorting the neighbors and using sustortuosos alleys and steep hills as a fortress.
Then, install garrisons in lasfavelas strategic and police units, specially trained for monitoring tasks pararealizar beginning to patrullarincidiendo treated humanely and in a close relationship with the neighbors.
The regional government also takes diversasasistencias to extend social services to stabilize the water works and undertake yelectricidad urbanization.
So far in the project involved about 460 police officers seespera and to join others from 3500 until late 2010, half models that will emerge from the police academy next year. EFE
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