The Pacifying Police Unit (Portuguese: Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora, also translated as Police Pacification Unit), abbreviated UPP, is a law enforcement...
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Favela (section Pacifying police units)
(Brazilian police militias), all of the favelas in Rio's South Zone and key favelas in the North Zone are now managed by Pacifying Police Units, known as...
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community policing of the favelas under the Pacifying Police Unit program are staffed by new recruits coming straight from the Pacifying Police Unit police academy...
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Pacification (redirect from Pacifying)
control by a government over a population impacted by violent crime. Pacifying Police Unit (Rio State, Brazil) Other meanings: Violent Pacification an album...
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backdrop in the 2002 film City of God. In 2009, it was occupied by a Pacifying Police Unit. Area (2003): 1.2058 km2 (0.4656 mi2; 298 acres) Population (2000):...
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for drug charges. Following his arrest, Rocinha was occupied by a Pacifying Police Unit. Journalist and historian Misha Glenny has written the biography...
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Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (category Police tactical units)
favelas. Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State Pacifying Police Unit GATE and COE (São Paulo Military Police) ROTA (São Paulo Military Police) National Force...
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program to combat gangs and gang-centered violence known as the Pacifying Police Unit (PPU) was introduced in the traditionally violent favelas of Rio...
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Progressive Party, a political party in South Korea Other Pacifying Police Unit, policing and law enforcement program in Rio de Janeiro Ultimate++, an...
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Rocinha (section Police and military operations)
inspired in part by the favela. Sérgio Cabral Rio de Janeiro Pacifying Police Unit Community policing "Bairro: Rocinha". Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro. Archived...
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2008 the control of Dona Marta was turned to civil police forces when Rio's first Pacifying Police Unit was established there. Between 2008 and 2013 the...
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beginning in December 2009, the neighborhood was pacified by a then-newly formed Pacifying Police Unit (UPP). On 30 June 2010, the Rubem Braga Complex...
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2011, Vidigal and its neighboring community, Rocinha, were pacified by the Pacifying Police Unit. In September 2017, a so-called coup d'état took place in...
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Complexo do Alemão began to be under the umbrella of eight new Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) at the predetermined conclusion of the military's presence...
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José Beltrame (category Brazilian police officers)
Intelligence Service and Interpol. Beltrame was one of the creators of the Pacifying Police Unit, the UPPs, applied in the state of Rio de Janeiro and with possible...
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Special Operations Battalion (PMAC) (category Specialist police agencies of Brazil)
Forces Military Police Gendarmerie Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State Pacifying Police Unit GATE and ROTA (São Paulo Military Police) National Force...
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2019. 陶仁义 (2017). "谷正伦:宪兵之父 绥靖甘黔" [Gu Zhenglun: Father of Military Police and Pacifying Gansu and Guizhou]. 文史天地 [Literature and History] (in Simplified...
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Armed conflict for control of the favelas (category Police brutality in Brazil)
Despite years of violent conflict with Brazilian police and deterrent efforts such as the Police Pacifying Unit (UPP), and among conflicts with other criminal...
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Complexo do Alemão (section 2007 police operation)
the government setting up UPPs, Unidade de Policia pacificadora, Pacifying Police units within various favelas around Rio. This led to the expulsion of...
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Brazilian criminal justice (section Police)
Security (Brazil) Operation Car Wash Outsourcing law in Brazil Pacifying Police Unit Politics of Brazil Prosecutor General of Brazil Public Procuracy...
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and culture to all pacified communities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, i.e., those that already have the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs). Created in August...
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Janeiro began to implement the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) project, which consists of implementing community police units in favelas dominated by drug trafficking...
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Brazilian Marine Corps (category Military units and formations established in 1808)
garrisons, in Rio's case, the Pacifying Police Units. In the 1988 Constitution's legal order, the Armed Forces may be employed in police-type law and order operations...
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Janeiro, on improving public safety in cooperation with the local Pacifying Police Unit. The program on Global Food Security, in collaboration with the...
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million a year[when?] until 2014, to the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) project, a new model of public safety and policing. The funds will be used by the Rio...
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conflict, and they gained worldwide fame and recognition after successfully pacifying the communist insurgency in Malaysia's jungles between 1968 and 1989....
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Korück (category Military units and formations of the Wehrmacht)
around Vyazma. The units of Korück 582 had a staff of 1,700 men. The Korück was responsible for securing the supply routes and "pacifying" the occupied area...
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policing program called Pacifying Police Units, or UPPs, in Rio. In contrast to previous police practices, UPPs created a sustained, long-term police...
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Encontro, in addition to part of the Lins Complex. A series of Pacifying Police Units were installed in the neighborhood in 2011, but at the beginning...
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In policing equipment, a police body camera or wearable camera, also known as body worn video (BWV), body-worn camera (BWC), or body camera, is a wearable...
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