MJ advances through new national database of criminal factions and militias
The MJSP (Ministry of Justice and Public Security) began the construction of the regulation of the National Database of Ultraviolent Criminal Organizations, Paramilitary Groups or Private Militias, which will mainly gather information on criminal factions, such as PCC and Red Command.
The ministry announced, this Friday (5), that a Technical Working Group was created responsible for preparing the regulatory proposal that will define the operating rules, governance, information sharing, interoperability and security of the system.
Provided for in article 29 of Law No. 15,358, of March 24, 2026, the National Bank will be a strategic tool for data integration and intelligence production within the scope of Susp (Single Public Security System), aimed at strengthening prevention, monitoring, investigation and qualified repression actions against organized crime.
The proposal under preparation envisages the creation of a unified national database with information on members, collaborators, financiers and people linked to ultra-violent criminal organizations, private militias and paramilitary groups, in addition to records on organizational structures, operational, financial and territorial ties, intelligence data, criminal investigations and interstate and transnational articulations of these organizations.
The system will be coordinated by Senasp (National Public Security Secretariat), through the Information Management and Integration Directorate, and should work in an integrated manner with the state banks that will be implemented by the Federation units.
The proposal also provides for interoperability mechanisms, permanent auditing, access traceability and high standards of information security and data protection.
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Advancement in the fight against organized crime
According to the national secretary of Public Security, Chico Lucas, the initiative represents a structural advance in the Brazilian State's capacity to confront criminal organizations that operate in concert in different regions of the country.
"Organized crime does not respect state currencies. Therefore, we need tools capable of integrating information, identifying connections and allowing coordinated action between security forces. The National Bank was created with this purpose: transforming data into intelligence, strengthening investigations and expanding the State's capacity to confront criminal factions, militias and armed groups that threaten the Brazilian population", he stated.
The working group will bring together representatives from the Federal Police, Federal Highway Police, Senappen (National Secretariat for Penal Policies), Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), CNJ (National Council of Justice), National Council of the Public Ministry, National Council of Public Security Secretaries, National Council of Civil Police Chiefs and National Council of General Commanders of the Military Police.
Representatives of the National Group to Combat Criminal Organizations, National Council of Attorneys General, Coaf (Financial Activities Control Council), Central Bank, Federal Revenue, Federal Public Ministry, as well as researchers and reference institutions in the area of public security, such as the Brazilian Public Security Forum, the USP Violence Studies Center (NEV-USP), the Sou da Paz Institute and the Center for Security and Citizenship Studies should also be invited. (CESeC).
The regulations must establish objective criteria for the inclusion, updating and exclusion of records, protocols for national and international information sharing, auditing and accountability mechanisms, in addition to the use of advanced technologies for data correlation, link analysis and support for intelligence activities.
Source: CNN