Senate Approves Constitutional Reform to Create a National Security System

Overview

• The Senate approved the PEC that constitutionalizes the Sistema Único de Segurança Pública and the measure now awaits promulgation by the appropriate authorities.
• The text expands federal coordination powers, mandates greater information sharing and shields security fund resources from budget blocks to increase funding predictability.
• The amendment allows the creation of municipal police under rules on training, finances and external oversight, and several states are already advancing local proposals and transitions.
• The government is promoting a separate Ministry of Public Security as a vehicle to use the new framework but the ministry is not required by the amendment and several experts question its necessity.
• Technical bodies Ipea and the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública will publish a detailed proposal on institutional architecture and governance on November 23 to guide regulation, training, evaluation and implementation.