Public security

This article is a bibliographic research that has as its theme Public Security and Citizenship. The general objective of this study is to point out the role of the criminal police in maintaining citizenship in Brazil. The specifi c objectives are: to characterize public security in Brazil; discuss the complex relationship that encompasses the protection of nonincarcerated citizens and at the same time involves humane treatment of the prisoner; present the criminal police as an important element for the resocialization of the prisoner. The criminal police offi cer carries out a task linked to democratic practices, presenting a citizenship relationship in the face of the challenges of the resocialization of the individual. The activities carried out by the criminal police are measures to ensure the protection of the prisoner from the execution of the sentence in a humanized way, but they also represent the State exercising the protection of civil society. The right to public security is a state duty that must guarantee public order, maintain democracy in the country and protect the citizen.