THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING OF PUBLIC SECURITY PROFESSIONALS

THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA (UFBA)

Abstract

This text presents a reflection on the interdisciplinarity in the training of public security professionals by UFBA, developed by the Postgraduate Program in Public Security - Progesp, through the Professional Master Degree in Public Security, Justice and Citizenship MPSPJC. It seeks to understand how MPSPJC contributed to the immersion of these professionals in a new perspective of security marked by a commitment to citizenship and democratic values. Thus, it analyzes the academic contributions of its students, from the conclusion of the course work, distributed among the subareas “crime and victimization”, “public security policy and management” and “human rights and citizenship”. It highlights the innovation of the MPSPJC in bringing public security institutions closer to the university, and the new ways of thinking about public security resulting from this dialogue. Of a qualitative nature, and with an empirical clipping of the intellectual production of the masters from 2010 to 2020, it is evident that the MPSPJC collaborated not only for the realization of the research and public policy agenda in the area of public security, but also for the visualization demands made by society as well as by public security institutions.