Government invests in high-tech equipment to strengthen public safety in Pará
The technological apparatus brings greater efficiency, both in solving crimes and in executing police operations
Drones, kiosks, body cameras and video monitoring, metal detectors, and high-performance computers are among the main acquisitions of high-tech equipment made by the State Government in recent years to strengthen operations and ensure more safety for the people of Pará.
“We have acquired more than 100 security kiosks, including self-service kiosks for women, with the aim of expanding our monitoring reach. We also have 3,000 body cameras, which not only assist the population but, above all, our agents during approaches. All this apparatus combined with the acquisitions of each force helps us improve the performance of our agents, which reinforces actions against crime, reflecting in the positive indices that our State has been presenting,” emphasizes Ualame Machado, Secretary of Public Security and Social Defense (Segup).
The Civil, Military, and Penal Police have also been provided with technological intelligence tools that assist investigations and security operations. More than 10 workstations (high-performance computers designed for professional tasks that require high processing capacity and resources) and 11 drones were recently acquired solely by the Civil Police.
“All this technological apparatus is invested to bring greater efficiency, both in solving crimes and in the field of operational capability, bringing more assertiveness and even safety so that our operators, at the moment of actions, have sufficient information elements to perform and develop the operation in the best possible way, achieving the best possible results,” says Temmer Khayat, Deputy General Delegate of the Civil Police.
From 2019 to 2025, the Military Police has been provided with more than 2,000 pieces of equipment, such as computers, laptops, and tablets, in addition to fusion machines and fiber optic converters, 600 bodycams, nearly 3,000 electroshock devices (tasers), and more than 1,000 radios.
“The Military Police of the State has been nationally recognized for the reduction of crime, especially intentional lethal violent crimes. We are in the process of acquiring 50 thermal drones, which are cutting-edge technologies that can assist the ordinary troops when an individual, for example, evades into a forested area. It is dangerous for a military police officer to enter an area with no light, so these thermal drones help find criminals,” explains the Commander-General of the Military Police, Colonel Dilson Júnior.
Among the high-tech equipment acquired by the Scientific Police are: drones, 3D laser scanners used for digital reconstruction of crime scenes; sound level meters to assess noise pollution; flat scans, which create a sort of full-body X-ray of the corpse; FTIR, which uses infrared to analyze the composition and structures of metals; FID, used to separate and identify organic compounds in samples; and the Liquid Chromatography system coupled with a quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS/MS), which allows the analysis of complex compounds, including those with low volatility or thermal stability, in various samples such as food, pharmaceuticals, and environmental materials.
“These investments in the PCEPA are important to provide technical-scientific security for the experts, to produce efficient reports, with quality, robust, and to deliver justice through forensic examinations,” emphasizes Celso Mascarenhas, General Director of the Scientific Police of Pará.
SEAP - In addition to renewing and expanding the fleet of vehicles of the State Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration (Seap), in 2024, the State Government delivered more than 500 bodycams for the prison system and metal detection portals. A total investment exceeding R$ 15 million. The body cameras serve 17 prison units in the municipalities of Belém, Ananindeua, Marituba, Santa Izabel, Marabá, Paragominas, Vitória do Xingu, and Tucuruí.
“Investments in technology within the penitentiary system are extremely important, especially the body cameras, which make Pará one of the three states in the country implementing this technology. These equipment represent a support for our prison officers to work. Furthermore, it aims to deter those employees who might attempt to commit any irregularities. These measures are a historic milestone in the Pará penitentiary system,” celebrates the head of Seap, Colonel Marco Antônio Sirotheau.
DETRAN – The technological support of the Central Control of Traffic Operations (Sentinela), which operates through video monitoring of the main highways monitored by the State Department of Traffic (Detran), is another gain for the people of Pará. “Sentinela acts as support for the work of the inspection agents, identifying obstacles to the flow of the road, irregular vehicles, and also acting preventively in risk situations. It is an innovative tool that reinforces road safety in the State. The great result of this work has been the reduction of these irregularities in the areas where the Central is installed,” says the operations coordinator of Detran, Ivan Feitosa.
FIRE DEPARTMENT – The ‘Disaster Monitoring Information Room’ of the State Civil Defense Coordination is one of the technological highlights of the Military Fire Department of the State of Pará (CBMPA). “We use internet platforms that issue alerts, we compile what comes to Pará and issue our own alerts. We intend, with this, to be a reference in monitoring and issuing alerts so that municipalities can quickly have information about any type of extreme event in their region and can then, through their municipal coordinators, carry out the necessary actions to mitigate the impacts related to that extreme event,” points out Lieutenant Leonardo Santos, head of the space.
