Operation Summer 2025 mobilizes nearly 2,900 prison officers
During the school holidays in July, the Department of Penitentiary Administration integrates the preventive and repressive actions of the security forces
Operation Summer 2025 was launched this Friday (27) across the entire Pará territory, with the participation of the agencies that make up the Pará Security and Social Defense System (Sieds), coordinated by the State Department of Public Security and Social Defense (Segup). The operation will continue until August 4. The staff of the State Department of Penitentiary Administration (Seap) consists of nearly 2,900 police officers, in the 54 penal units and in the specialized forces of the institution.
The Deputy Secretary of Operational Management (Sago), of Seap, coordinates Operation Summer within the prison system. According to Deputy Secretary Ringo Alex Rayol Frias, in addition to the reinforcement and attention in the penal units, the specialized forces of Seap will act together with the other public security forces.
Seap, through the Institutional Security Advisory (ASI), will apply its specialized knowledge in preventive and repressive actions. The specialized forces of the Penitentiary Action Command (Cope) and prison officers will act in inspections of bars, concert halls, and similar establishments.
“The GBR (Search and Recapture Group) will be with its vehicles monitoring those who are under judicial decision adverse to imprisonment. This monitoring is to maintain control of the monitored prison population. Intramuros, we will intensify, daily, the structural searches within the prison units, to prevent any incident that could compromise the institutional security of the Department,” informed Ringo Alex.
The Department will have the support of 83 operational vehicles for patrols, escorts, strategic movements, and support for intelligence and monitoring actions. The Penitentiary Administration Directorate (DAP) will coordinate with the heads of the prison units, as well as the effective control of supervision of general and structural searches, according to the parameters established by the Operational Procedures Manual (MPO).
The actions will include close surveillance of the prison population; strict control of access to the units; maintenance of internal order and discipline; regular application of patrols and operational inspections.
Overflights – Another action planned, according to Ringo Alex, is the request for support from the Air Security Group (Graesp) on weekends, for overflights over the Santa Izabel do Pará Penitentiary Complex, the largest in the State, and Marabá.
“To also maintain control of our regional units and strengthen access control of the penal houses, we will use nearly 3,000 operators throughout the Operation Summer period. And, finally, maintain this effective control of the State, keep this control that Seap already holds over our prison units, and keep them intact, with the aim of maintaining this standardization, also greatly contributing to public safety, and also bringing, as a consequence, social peace,” said the head of Sago.
Illegal Communication - In addition to the actions already reported, Seap plans to carry out the 8th phase of Operation Mute, nationally coordinated by the National Secretariat of Penitentiary Policies (Senappen), of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. The main focus of Mute is to combat illegal communication, using cell phones in prisons across the country, and searching for illicit materials in the cells.
During the Operation Summer period, there will also be periodic and intensified patrols in all units, structural and general searches, and ostensive and preventive actions by specialized troops.
Text: Márcio Sousa – NCS/Seap
