Commissioner Martha Mesquita de Rocha, 51, has been appointed head of the civil police of the State of Rio de Janeiro, one of the most violent in Brazil. Rocha, appointed yesterday by the regional government in an attempt to cleanse the body of corrupt Turnowski replaces Allan, who resigned yesterday amid a scandal over the arrest of 35 policemen suspected of collaborating with drug gangs.
Rocha, who has 27 years in the body, the first woman to hold office, with 12,000 officers under his command. His appointment comes at a crucial moment in the middle of Operation Guillotine, developed during the past year. The officers arrested are accused of conspiracy, sale of weapons to traffickers in the favelas and owning firearms, ammunition and money seized from drug traffickers.
Upon taking office, the new head of the body has been suggested to be away from the previous members of the police leadership, and stressed that going to pay attention to ethics and integrity. In the past five years, two leaders of the civil police, the body responsible for criminal investigations and judicial functions developed have been arrested and three have left office early for his alleged involvement in criminal networks.
The latter, Turnowski, could be charged by federal police have passed information to drug traffickers so they could flee the police. In addition, the operation has fallen into his right arm, Commissioner Carlos Oliveira, who is arrested for selling a machine gun, an AR-15 rifle and three handguns to dealers in the favela Urubu.
He is also accused of possession of 4 guns, 15 pistols and 40,000 rounds of drug traffickers. Rocha arrives in one of the moments of greatest crisis not only police, but of greater responsibility, as it will be in charge of the pacification of the favelas of Rio to prevent the World Cup in 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games fail the serious urban violence.
In 2008, according to the Security Ministry, 7,089 people were killed in the state, nearly 20 homicides per day. More than a thousand, killed by military police. "Old and serious problem" Despite the prestige of the regional police corruption, its chief executive, the security secretary Jose Mariano Beltrame, is considered the soul of the peacekeeping operation in the slums, so that even has spoken to present a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Beltrame has had to sacrifice to the ancestor of Rocha, who enjoyed his confidence. Beltrame Security Secretary has acknowledged that the problem of corruption carioca "is old and serious," and that the global experience shows that unless corruption is removed nested in law enforcement, there is no possibility to renew the bodies of police.
"No policeman of the world is able to change the page while holding in his heart to such corrupt," he said. To try this cleaning Rio's police forces, civilian and military (those responsible for public order and deal directly with armed gangs), Beltrame Rocha has been chosen, but stressed that it has chosen "because they are women, but history of 27 years in the police and that her appointment has generated unanimity within the body.
" According to the Head of Security, is someone who comes "to break paradigms." "Sweetness and bravery" The governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral said in another public act that Rocha has "credibility and recognition" within the civilian police body he entered in 1983, and which is a curator since 1990.
"Martha Rocha will fulfill its mission with the sweetness and bravery of a woman, because when the woman needs, is more courageous than the man," he said. The new head of civil police and earned a reputation for having a pulse with difficult decisions, as when he replaced in 1993 by General Director of Special Police Department, then accused of embezzlement within the body.
"We must have a strong control, because the good cop not afraid of being audited," said Rocha. 
Rocha, who has 27 years in the body, the first woman to hold office, with 12,000 officers under his command. His appointment comes at a crucial moment in the middle of Operation Guillotine, developed during the past year. The officers arrested are accused of conspiracy, sale of weapons to traffickers in the favelas and owning firearms, ammunition and money seized from drug traffickers.
Upon taking office, the new head of the body has been suggested to be away from the previous members of the police leadership, and stressed that going to pay attention to ethics and integrity. In the past five years, two leaders of the civil police, the body responsible for criminal investigations and judicial functions developed have been arrested and three have left office early for his alleged involvement in criminal networks.
The latter, Turnowski, could be charged by federal police have passed information to drug traffickers so they could flee the police. In addition, the operation has fallen into his right arm, Commissioner Carlos Oliveira, who is arrested for selling a machine gun, an AR-15 rifle and three handguns to dealers in the favela Urubu.
He is also accused of possession of 4 guns, 15 pistols and 40,000 rounds of drug traffickers. Rocha arrives in one of the moments of greatest crisis not only police, but of greater responsibility, as it will be in charge of the pacification of the favelas of Rio to prevent the World Cup in 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games fail the serious urban violence.
In 2008, according to the Security Ministry, 7,089 people were killed in the state, nearly 20 homicides per day. More than a thousand, killed by military police. "Old and serious problem" Despite the prestige of the regional police corruption, its chief executive, the security secretary Jose Mariano Beltrame, is considered the soul of the peacekeeping operation in the slums, so that even has spoken to present a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Beltrame has had to sacrifice to the ancestor of Rocha, who enjoyed his confidence. Beltrame Security Secretary has acknowledged that the problem of corruption carioca "is old and serious," and that the global experience shows that unless corruption is removed nested in law enforcement, there is no possibility to renew the bodies of police.
"No policeman of the world is able to change the page while holding in his heart to such corrupt," he said. To try this cleaning Rio's police forces, civilian and military (those responsible for public order and deal directly with armed gangs), Beltrame Rocha has been chosen, but stressed that it has chosen "because they are women, but history of 27 years in the police and that her appointment has generated unanimity within the body.
" According to the Head of Security, is someone who comes "to break paradigms." "Sweetness and bravery" The governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral said in another public act that Rocha has "credibility and recognition" within the civilian police body he entered in 1983, and which is a curator since 1990.
"Martha Rocha will fulfill its mission with the sweetness and bravery of a woman, because when the woman needs, is more courageous than the man," he said. The new head of civil police and earned a reputation for having a pulse with difficult decisions, as when he replaced in 1993 by General Director of Special Police Department, then accused of embezzlement within the body.
"We must have a strong control, because the good cop not afraid of being audited," said Rocha.
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