A construção de um sistema nacional de informações em segurança pública: os desafios de implementação de uma agenda

Abstract

This thesis investigates the political and historical processes related to the formulation and implementation of the National System of Public Security and Criminal Justice (SINESPJC). Therefore, we seek to understand the decision-making processes of the agenda formation and implementation of strategies and examines how changes in management influenced the continuity of the implementation and use of information as a tool to aid management of national security policies. The methodological basis of this work is focused on a comprehensive survey, from a social historical reconstruction of the processes of the National Public Security Secretariat (Senasp), responsible for developing the SINESPJC. Interviews were conducted with actors who participated in the management of Senasp, in order to understand their views, values and motivations that guided their actions related to data collection programs, use and disclosure of information. This paper argues that, prior to 2003, there was no political ambience for the construction of a national information system, although there is consensus about its necessity, and only in 2003 was the opening of a window of opportunity driven by the confluence of political, technical and the presence of political entrepreneurs who valued the information as a management tool in the formulation and evaluation of policies. Subsequently, management changes took effect on the continued implementation of the information system and other related programs. The result found was that in the process of changes in management, production and use of information lost centrality and importance within the national security policy. In the absence of mechanisms to allow the federative cooperation between federal, state and county in the field of public security policies, managers of Senasp use their information production programs as a bargaining chip in the political bargaining game