Overview
- The Senate approved the PEC on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, and the text will be sent for formal promulgation while complementary laws and regulations are drafted to put it into effect.
- The amendment places the Sistema Único de Segurança Pública (SUSP) and a National Council in the Constitution to promote coordination between the federal government, states and municipalities.
- The PEC authorizes career municipal police of a civil nature focused on ostensive and community policing but bars them from conducting criminal investigations, which remain the remit of police judiciária such as state civil police.
- The text gives the Federal Police constitutional backing to investigate organized crime and militias and broadens the Polícia Rodoviária Federal’s legal basis to provide assistance and protect federal interests beyond highways, subject to future rules.
- Key operational questions remain unresolved: funding rules for municipal forces, accreditation standards, limits on PRF deployments, and the allocation of national security funds will be set by forthcoming laws, ministerial norms and budgetary choices, making implementation the next political contest.