São Paulo Anti-Organized-Crime Prosecutor Rejects PEC Expanding Federal Police Command

Overview

• Lincoln Gakiya said the Federal Police should not direct state forces and warned against any hierarchical overlap between agencies.
• The government’s public security amendment seeks to expand Federal Police activity in the states to target criminal factions and organizations.
• Gakiya argued the proposal is politicized and largely replicates the Unified Public Security System, which he says exists in law but is not applied.
• He proposed a suprapartisan National Antimafia agency bringing together federal and state police, prosecutors, the Federal Revenue Service and oversight bodies.
• The rapporteur, Guilherme Derrite, removed language equating factions to terrorists in the fourth draft, while PL leader Sóstenes Cavalcante insists on restoring it as the committee targeted a Nov. 18 vote that Gakiya criticized as rushed and underdebated.