City Guards
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The City Guards are typical Brazilian uniformized corporations. Created in the time of Empire of Brazil these municipal police guard corporations are subortinated to the mayors (in Portuguese:prefeitos).Trained as a municipal infantary, the city guards can make the 'arrest voice' in the act of crime (in Portuguese: prisão em flagrante delito) and are responsible to police the municipal parks, propieties, installations and the internal part of municipal concils and city halls with administrative police powers and acting as a patrimonial/security police. In some cities, like São Paulo, the commander is a Military Police retired colonel.In others, the commander can be a retired Civil Police director (see Civil Police and Policing in Brazil).There is a third example: Im some cities, like Guarulhos/SP and Osasco/SP; the commanders are licensed menbers of São Paulo's Metropolitan Civil Guard Guarda Civil Metropolitana da Cidade de São Paulo).There is Constitucional Amendment Proposition (PEC nº 534/2002) which will change the Brazilian City/Municipal Guards Constitucional mission. If approved, these constitution's review will be take powers to every guarsdman to serve & protect the brazilian cities citzens. The PEC was approved in the Brazilian Federal Senate's Justice Comission and now it's waiting to be approved in the Brazilian Federal House of Represetatives. After that, the PEC will need to be approved or not by the President of Federative Republic of Brazil: Mr. Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.
