Santa Catarina security forces launched this Monday (21) Operation Shamar to combat domestic and family violence against women and femicide in Santa Catarina. The initiative is held during Awareness Month to End Violence Against Women, Lilac August.

Operation Shamar in the state is coordinated by the SSP-SC with the support of the security agencies – Photo: RICARDO WOLLFENBÜTTEL/SECOM/ND

“Shamar”, whose Hebrew word means “care, protect, protect, look after, look after”, is a national action coordinated by the MJSP (Ministry of Justice and Public Security).

In Santa Catarina, statewide coordination is carried out by the SSP-SC (State Secretariat of Public Safety), and operations will be carried out by military, civil, scientific and military fire brigades, mainly through units and programs specialized in protecting women victims of violence, such as the Specialized Police Stations, the Women’s Civil Police Program, the Catarina Women’s Protection Network, the Women’s PCI and the María da Peña Military Police Patrols, among others.

Planned actions

Activities include intelligence, prevention, educational, explicit and repressive activities aimed at combating domestic and family violence against women. This includes helping victims of violence, reviewing court warrants for specific cases of crimes of domestic and family violence against women, and enforcement of arrest warrants.

In addition, police procedures will be included, police procedures will be introduced and priority will be given to the examination of victims of violence.

Preventive visits to women with the use of protective measures and monitoring of compliance with these measures by the aggressors, information and educational lectures with the aggressors, educational campaigns, information dissemination campaigns and others are also planned.

According to the Secretary of State, the prevention and suppression of violence against women are the state’s public security priorities. Photo: Divulgation/ND

According to Minister of Public Security Paulo Cesar Ramos de Oliveira, preventing and combating violence against women is a state public security priority.

“The state government has taken a number of actions to reduce the level of violence and strive to provide adequate protection to women who are victims of violence. Now we are engaged in this important national mobilization, further intensifying the work,” he notes.

Complaints

The operation will also investigate complaints from any media, especially Dial Denúncia 181 and WhatsApp Denúncia (48) 98844-0011, as well as the virtual police station of the civilian police, as well as emergency numbers 190 of the military police. and 193 fire department.