Seap conducts general inspections in penal units of the Metropolitan Region of Belém
The preventive action occurs within the monthly planning of the Secretariat to maintain control of the units, ensuring safety and well-being for the staff and the population
To maintain the schedule and the prior planning established for the prison system, the State Secretariat for Penitentiary Administration (Seap) conducted inspections on Wednesday (12), at two times, at the Santa Izabel Penitentiary Complex, focusing on the Custody and Reintegration Units of Santa Izabel III (UCR III) and the Custody and Reintegration Units of Marituba (UCR I, II, and III), in the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The preventive actions reinforce the control of the penal units, ensuring tranquility for staff and the population.
The UCR Santa Izabel III underwent a thorough inspection in the morning. At the beginning of the evening, another action was carried out, maintaining the same effectiveness in supervising the cells and the three blocks (A, B, and C) that make up the unit. The other units were inspected only in the morning.
The Deputy Secretary of Operational Management of Seap, Ringo Alex Rayol Frias, coordinated the actions at the Santa Izabel Penitentiary Complex and emphasized that the Secretariat is promoting operational actions that integrate the routine of the prison system. Among the actions are unannounced periodic inspections in the 54 prison units.
“With the innovation, now alternating the times as well, so that we can check the prison environment during the night in the prison units. This maintains a more effective control. We can provide a service to all of Pará's society regarding this prison control, and mainly bringing tranquility, so that our penal police operators can perform their activities, in their shifts, in an orderly and productive manner,” emphasized Ringo Alex.
Effective - Seap mobilized special forces from the Penitentiary Action Group (GAP) and the Penitentiary Operations Command (Cope), in addition to other penal police, during the inspections. The GAP operated with 16 operators, and the Cope with 34.
The commander of the GAP, penal police Eslaine, reported that the work of the teams was carried out without any incidents at UCR III. According to the commander, the entire action followed the protocols established by the Secretariat.
“Nothing illegal was found, and the GAP, thank God, manages to operate effectively in this control of the prison system, together with the other police officers. Today, the inspection is specific to UCR III, and we have been conducting these inspections punctually in the units directed by our deputy secretary,” she added.
Inspection - Captain QOPM Ismael Alcântara, commander of Cope, personally monitored the work of the 34 operators of the Command, responsible for inspecting blocks A and B of UCR III. According to him, “today we are operating with 34 operators. It is important to emphasize that this mission comes precisely to improve the inspection, so that we can actually enter the cell, to understand how this inmate has been behaving. Some indications show how this inmate has been behaving, how he obeys the commands of the troops when we verbalize procedures, and he really enters the procedure.”
The captain added that the objective is to evaluate the structures and illicit objects. “This work ends up being preventive. The work is of extreme relevance. The Secretariat has been working this way, preventively, in order to anticipate, so that we can avoid, mitigate some problems. So that we do not lose this control, and continue maintaining it as our procedural manual conceives, which should be the behavior of the inmate and the activities that are carried out inside the prison,” informed Captain Alcântara.
The director of UCR II, Gledson Tajano, emphasized that the operation carried out on Wednesday is planned, based on the determination of the Secretary of State for Penitentiary Administration, Colonel QOPM Marco Antonio Sirotheau Correa Rodrigues.
“The objective is to minimize any act of subversion, any attempt to organize any act of transgression or any act of disorganization in the prison system, which could bring fragility to security. This is right after all visits, providing operational support, bringing normality to the prison system and maintaining security protocols and the procedural manual. We are the best in Brazil regarding prison control. Within this, it brings security outside and inside the prison,” concluded the director.
Text: Márcio Sousa - Ascom/Seap
