Respostas organizacionais policiais a demandas institucionais da segurança pública em Minas Gerais: a implantação do projeto Integração da Gestão em Segurança Pública

Abstract

Since 2003, the Minas Gerais state government has implemented a series of innovations in its structure and public security governance model, formalized through the Social Defense system and state social defense policy. In this scenario, we highlight the integration policy, based on collegial governance mechanisms and the integrated management of actions and information, through the articulation of the public security organs were systemic horizontal. This work adopts the concepts of institutional demands and organizational responses to analyze the ways in which police organizations in Minas Gerais have responded to processes of institutional change in the area of Public Security. According to Oliver's analytical model (1991), starting point for this work, organizational responses range from compliance to resistance to passivity, from impotence to influence, and from ability to opportunity, depending on the nature of institutional demands. As a methodological approach, a qualitative approach was chosen, in the form of a case study in the terms of Yin (2001), based on bibliographical and documentary research, such as articles, reports and official documents, and semi-structured interviews with police managers And the Secretary of State for Social Defense. The results indicate that police organizations have presented responses of non-compliance to institutional changes, with more signs of resistance by the Civil Police. Additionally, the evidence contradicts some propositions of the selected model. This research contributes to the deepening of studies on public security policies, suggesting the inclusion of analytical variables to the model of Oliver (1991), directed to public organizations.