Santa Catarina will call in retired police officers to reinforce the force for the operation in the summer of 2023/2024. According to the Civil Police, this measure will fill the shortage of agents, since there is no competition for permanent staff.

A total of 1,193 police officers will be mobilized on the Santa Catarina coast this summer, with a reinforcement of 400 police officers – Photo: PCSC/Reproduction/ND

Retired police officers should work mainly in the administrative areas of the state.

According to the general delegate of the PCSC (Civil Police of Santa Catarina), Ulisses Gabriel, this measure has not been adopted since 2017.

“This measure will put young civilian police officers on the front line in the fight against crime,” he explains.

Retired police officers part of summer security strategy

The General Delegate of the Civil Police, Ulisses Gabriel, said that 1,193 police officers would be mobilized on the coast of Santa Catarina, with a reinforcement of 400 police officers. That number does not include retired police officers, according to the corporation.

“The retired police officers will be the police officers who will be called upon to meet the demand that the police officers who will go to Estação Verão will arise in the interior municipalities,” explained the Civil Police.

“In this way, on the coast there will be an increase in the number of police officers who will take part in Operation Estação Verão, and in the interior there will be an increase in the number of retired police officers who will come to meet the demand, mainly in administrative work in police stations. »

Retired police officers form part of summer security strategy – Photo: Civil Police/Disclosure/ND

According to Ulisses, four quad bikes will cruise the beaches, handing out ID bracelets to children:

“We are going to identify the children and present them with a junior civilian police badge. We want to provide protection for these children and guarantees for their parents.”

Balneario Camboriu and Florianópolis have bilingual English and Spanish police officers who assist foreign tourists, the general delegate said.

Finally, he announced that they would expand mobile unit services so that there would be vehicles on the beaches to record incidents and so that citizens would not have to travel to the city center.