House Panel Advances Security Overhaul as Final Hearings Begin on PEC 18/2025

Overview

• Lawmakers hold a Nov. 3 hearing on interagency integration and rail and road policing, with 14 of 17 planned sessions completed and one more expected in mid‑November.
• The amendment would constitutionalize the national public security system (SUSP) and lock in the National Public Security and Penitentiary funds to ensure stable, non‑contingible transfers.
• The text renames and expands the PRF into a multimodal Polícia Viária Federal to patrol roads, railways and waterways, and it broadens Federal Police authority to explicitly cover environmental crimes and militias.
• Relator Mendonça Filho has removed a clause concentrating norm‑setting in the Union, signals a more decentralized design, considers tougher rules for faction leaders and second‑instance imprisonment, and aims to deliver his report in November with a committee vote within about 30 days.
• A Genial/Quaest poll shared by O Globo finds a majority favorable to the PEC, including 52% support in Rio, as large joint operations in Rio have intensified the push for coordinated national standards; final approval still requires two‑round supermajorities in the Chamber and Senate.