Colonel Luiz Henrique Marinho Pires, secretary of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, confirmed on Tuesday 2 that officers of the BOPE Special Operations Battalion are already training to use the cameras on their uniforms. The system will be installed next Monday 8th.
Pires denied that the decision was linked to the three deaths in a Bope action in the Complexo de Israel, in the north of the city of Rio, last week. Security camera images show members of the battalion, armed with rifles, and at least two men surrendered and tied up in a house. Hours later, the same suspects were taken dead to the state hospital Getúlio Vargas, in Penha.
The case occurred on Wednesday 27th, when military police officer Leonardo Maciel da Rocha, 33 years old, died after being hit by a Military Police armored vehicle.
“We respected the STF’s decision. The date that BOPE would use cameras on its uniforms was already on our schedule. It will be on the 8th,” the Prime Minister’s secretary told the newspaper The globe. “There is no connection with the episode that occurred in the Israeli compound. In fact, our internal affairs department is monitoring the case at the capital’s homicide police station. We have the utmost interest in clarifying the facts.”
In June 2023, Minister Edson Fachin, of the Federal Supreme Court, maintained the order to install cameras on uniforms, as well as audio and video recording in Rio police vehicles, including for specialized police teams, such as Bope and Core.
The following month, the Rio de Janeiro government published a decree stipulating that officers of the elite civilian and military police troops would begin wearing cameras on their uniforms.
2024-01-03 02:01:00
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