Mulheres policiais: um estudo sobre a presença feminina na polícia militar do Amapá

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the process of development and women's role in the Military Police of Amapá (PMAP) given that the police area is still a labor camp typically associated with male performance. In this sense throughout the work are made reflections on gender relations and how they are processed in the organizational environment. In Brazil, all Brazilian states have military police women, however, the proportion of these varies according to each state, which was due the same year of entry and the process through which every corporation allowed access of women his paintings. In Amapá, after more than 20 years of women joining the Military Police (PM) little is known as it has been constituted in fact their participation in the institution. In this sense, the field research focused on the barracks area of the general Command of the PMAP, plus some battalions located in the cities of Macapá and Santana. The core of the research subjects were 20 women selected in both the Official Circle as in Squares Circle, it was possible to interview police officers who were working in ostensible policing or in the administrative area. Also they interviewed 10 men between officers and squares in order to know their opinions about the presence and role of women in the PM. In this context the results demonstrate that in fact the military police activity still preserves a culture based on symbologies macho, especially that which concerns the, supposedly superior physical strength in men and less in women. The narratives of female and male police also indicates that the PMAP although the woman is present in all activities, work and their performance are largely associated with their skills considered as "natural" and that such skills are best employed in administrative activities. However, despite the importance of women in operational activities, especially because, it is legally conditional police the realization of women's magazine, is the ostensible policing they encounter the greatest difficulties of operation, as many men still resist working with women because they believe they do not hold the physical strength to the work performed on the street requires. In the speeches of the interviewed police officers it is also possible to realize important reflections about the presence and role of women in the corporation, however, institutionally, there is no discussion in this regard