Abstract

DURAO, Susana. Police, Democratization and Proximity in Portugal: Ethnographic Essay. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, n.33, pp.171-180. ISSN 1514-6871.

Based on a multi-level ethnographic approach, this article proposes a reading that shows the contemporary tensions in a policing model that is centralized and monopolistic by the action of a thePortuguesenational State, and simultaneously pulverizes itself in the territorysupportedbyan operational dynamic located in small police stations. Although the recent democratic transition has led the urban police to adopt a philosophy of proximity policing institutional change has several hesitations that point out how police stations,local policing and officersoften work without a clear plan of what is its activity,mantainingresidues of a not so distantauthoritarian past.

Keywords : policing; proximity; democracy; policemodel; Portugal.

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