Rio Scales Up Operação Verão With New Beach Rules and Pride-Day Security

Overview

• About 250 informational panels with QR codes are being installed along the shoreline, starting in Copacabana, to spell out permitted and prohibited beach conduct.
• Decree No. 57,243 authorizes licensed tent operators to handle glass bottles of distilled spirits only inside tents for mixed drinks, with oversight by SEOP and IVISA-Rio and no glass allowed on the sand.
• Vehicle access controls at Prainha and Grumari have resumed with closures once roughly 800 parking spaces fill, and SEOP will use drones to target illicit parking attendants, with extortion cases sent to police.
• For Sunday’s Pride parade in Copacabana, traffic lanes on Avenida Atlântica face rolling closures and bus diversions as roughly 500 SEOP and Municipal Guard agents conduct patrols, vendor checks and traffic control supported by drones and 21 COR cameras.
• The state’s Military Police say about 1,360 officers are assigned to Operação Verão along the coast with GAM aerial support, while city health teams will offer PrEP prescriptions and vaccinations and Comlurb is deploying 290 cleaners with 700 waste containers.