The Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) signed a technical cooperation agreement with the University of São Paulo Paulo (USP) that will make it possible to carry out actions in the area of training, teaching and research for agents who work on the borders and borders of the country. The document, published this Thursday (08), in the Federal Official Gazette, was signed by the deputy executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, Washington Bonini, and by the director of the Institute of International Relations at USP, Janina Onuki. .
The agreement will also provide for the exchange of professors and researchers; joint elaboration of extension and research projects; joint organization of courses of scientific and cultural events; exchange of information and publications; exchange of members of the technical-administrative team; and shared courses and subjects.
One of the planned courses, called “Multidimensional Security at the Borders”, will be held in the Distance Learning modality, with online classes, for about 500 police officers who work on the Triple Border between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, a region known as the focus of action. of organized crime, and in Uruguay. With an expected duration of one and a half months, the objective of the course is to reduce the difference in performance between the institutions that deal with the control of the trade in counterfeit and smuggled products at the border in order to better confront criminal organizations.
The content of the program, which will have a workload of 60 hours in the initial phase, will address the functioning of organized crime, the process of transnationalization of illicit markets and the operational structure of the main illegal markets in the region. In the face-to-face phase, scheduled for the first half of 2021, it will take more than 80 hours. The classes will be taught by academics from the Institute of International Relations of the University of São Paulo, in partnership with representatives of the Mackenzie University Law School, and public security professionals with recognized experience in the border area and other agents working in the region.
