Transfer of detainees to the Special Penitentiary Battalion proceeds successfully
The penal unit is intended for detainees who are still linked to the Military Police of Pará and are responding to provisional processes
On last Wednesday (16), the State Secretariat for Penitentiary Administration (Seap) and the Military Police of Pará carried out the transfer of 24 inmates from the Santa Izabel I Custody and Reintegration Unit (UCR Santa Izabel I), which is part of the Santa Izabel Penitentiary Complex in Pará, to the Special Penitentiary Battalion of the Military Police (BEP/PM), located in the Cremação neighborhood in Belém. The unit is managed by the Military Police itself and is aimed at military police officers who still have a link with the institution but are responding to provisional processes.
The transfer of the 24 detainees from UCR Santa Izabel I began promptly at 8 a.m., with an individual health assessment of the inmates before boarding the penal system bus used for transporting the group. The entire movement was monitored by penal police from the unit, the Penitentiary Action Group (GAP), the Penitentiary Operations Command (COPE), along with support from military police from the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) and the Metropolitan Tactical Patrol (Rotam).
The action was supervised by the head of the Operational Management Undersecretariat (SAGO) of Seap, Ringo Alex Rayol Frias. He explained that the Special Penitentiary Battalion of the Military Police is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the institution, which is managed through an internal regulation and the military regulations of the PM itself.
“This battalion will only custody individuals deprived of liberty who are career military police officers with a link to the corporation and responding to provisional processes. Once the process results in a final conviction and they lose their status as a public servant of the Military Police corporation, they will be returned to the Pará penitentiary system,” Ringo explained.
The transfer of nearly 30 detainees from UCR Santa Izabel I complies with an internal regulation of the Military Police, which stipulates that military police officers in state custody must remain in a prison environment managed by the PM itself, as provided for in Article 295 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which establishes special imprisonment for certain individuals.
“Since there is this motivation and we had about 30, actually 24 military police officers in this condition, the transfers were carried out today. And now, a new cycle begins with the Military Police, with the BEP itself, coordinating all these activities. And then, SEAP effectively hands over the custody of these individuals who have a link with the Military Police corporation,” clarified the operational management secretary.
The convoy with vehicles from Seap, Rotam, and Bope accompanied the entire movement of the penal system bus that transported the group of detainees from Santa Izabel do Pará to Belém. The movement drew the attention of citizens and vehicle drivers along BR-316 and the main streets of Belém and Ananindeua.
During the arrival of the inmates at BEP/PM, traffic on the block of Avenida Fernando Guilhon was interrupted for safety reasons. The BEP was the headquarters of the former Shock Troop Battalion, which underwent extensive renovations and was delivered in February by the State Government. Since then, it has housed the BEP/PM and the Special Missions Command (CME).
Text: Márcio Sousa /Seap
