Senate Approves Security Constitutional Amendment

Overview

• The Senate approved the PEC da Segurança Pública in two turnos on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, with votes of 73–0 in the first round and 75–0 in the second, and the text now goes to promulgação.
• The amendment constitutionalizes the Sistema Único de Segurança Pública (SUSP) to require federative cooperation and creates rules for integrated forces‑task operations and data sharing among federal, state and municipal authorities.
• The PEC expands federal policing roles by giving the Polícia Federal clearer authority over crimes with interstate or international reach and by allowing the Polícia Rodoviária Federal to patrol federal railways and waterways.
• The text imposes tougher penalties for leaders and members of facções, milícias and paramilitary groups, including high‑security confinement, limits on prison benefits and seizure of assets tied to crime.
• Proposals to lower the age of criminal responsibility were excluded from the approved PEC and will be treated as separate constitutional proposals, and the government says the amendment opens the way to create a Ministry of Security though implementing rules, budget action and new laws are still needed.