O curso de Polícia Comunitária da Rede EAD SENASP e a mudança da percepção do policial militar em relação à sociedade

Abstract

There is no longer any doubt that the future of distance education has arrived, and it has also arrived for public safety, through the creation of the Rede Virtual EAD SENASP. It sponsors almost a hundred courses, including the Community Police Course. It aims at training military police officers in the Community Police Philosophy. As informed by the master tutors of SENASP, in Pernambuco, 4,898 (four thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight) military police in the state have already took part in this course. Considering this, based on the particular experience of this researcher, this paper aims to investigate whether the aforementioned course, offered in the distance learning mode by the Rede SENASP, modifies the military policeman's view in relation to society, starting to present the philosophy of community police as the focus of their work. During the study, a theoretical framework was developed to present the main concepts related to the theme, passing through theorists of distance education and community police philosophy. The research was developed by sending a questionnaire built on the “Google Forms” tool and forwarded to the network of contacts of the researcher and groups of military police officers on social networks, using the Likert scale model. The form was distributed indistinctly. However, the modality of the Community Police Course of SENASP in which the police officer had participated was inquired: on-site education, distance education, on-site and distance education or even if he did not participate in the Community Police Course. All participants were asked to respond about the main attitudes related to police action, which would demonstrate their perceptions about the community. The responses sought to point out whether the policemen who participated in the Distance Community Police Course, from the rede EAD SENASP, assimilated the Community Police Philosophy, this being signaled by the change in their perception and way of acting in relation to the community. The research showed us that all the policemen surveyed presented, to a certain extent, a perception of the community consistent with that of the Community Police Philosophy, whose grades in each questionnaire applied to a general average ranking give us results that would provide all policemen with work within the concepts community police. The students who are the focus of our research, the graduates of the EAD course, from the Rede SENASP, when confronted with a series of questions, which go against the practical performance of the military police, reached a score that allows us to affirm a change regarding the perception in relation to society. In this context, we verified the need to move forward in assimilating the community police philosophy, through the development by the student who graduated from the community police course at a distance, of a planning for the implementation of a community police project, with certification issued by specialists in the subject.