By Danillo Ferreira of Blog Abordagem Policial(Police approaching Blog)

it’s vast the discussion about the police corruption. Currently, the Colonel Paùl, of the PMERJ, connecting the corruption with the low salaries of the police officers created big controversial, discussed in several means. For him “the famine salaries don’t determine, but contribute to the practice of misconduct”. Particularly, I agree with the affirmation, with the correction that the degree of influence of the low salaries in the corruption is very limited, becoming dispensable argue with urgency the problem of the corruption through this angle. Others aspects, as inspection, recruitment, selection and motivation are more important in the origin of the corruption (the salaries is just one of the components of the motivational factor).

Over here still not came simple resources and of big efficiency, as the installation of cameras in the police cars, that at the same time give support to the policeman in his actions (normally questioned in his legitimacy), to identify criminals that can run away in a diligence, and supervise abuses and corrupt attitudes from the part of policemen. Still there is a bad distribution in the number of polices: the people policy of the corporations several times are unfair, doesn’t channel the competences in the right way. It is unthinkable that the policeman that will work with environmental policing have the same formation that a policeman of actions of the riot battalion, or even that this policeman of the riot, after several years in that function, be transferred to the work of communitarian police arbitrarily.

About the motivation, we can enumerate several aspects, as the excess of work, lack of structure and equipments to act, the diary living together with the bad commanders, the privileges, the low salaries, ect. All this is related to the police corruption, and it is the part to be made by the institutions. But, we can not leave to mention the responsibility of the society as one, neither that that belong to the individual. Practically we don’t know delinquents that are corrupted because of basic necessities. The corruption aim at only so the acquisition of a status cultured by the society as one, or for their subgroups, and in this way we can say that in our country this practice is not restricted in the police means. Ambition and vanity are values that cannot stay out of any discussion about corruption, and are peculiarities exclusives of the police officers.

At last, we must put attention to the personal dimension of the problem: the character, the disposition of infringing the law and the ethical own strong determination of the personality of each individual – and there we pass by the family, educational and psychological field. However, about these generic and common factors to all corruption, we have that the police corruption is of the more repugnant among all. For its character immediately perceptible, it become clear and sensible to the corrupt the damage that is committing. While a corrupt judge receives money by electronic bank transference, the corrupt policeman receives money on cash in his hands. The corrupt politician that breaks illegally the bank secrecy of a citizen feels to destroy less than the corrupt police that torture someone to acquire information. If to be corrupt is legal, moral and ethical disprovable, for a corrupt policeman it shows, above all, insensible and cruel.