As operações da Polícia Federal e as influências políticas

Selected by the editors of Revista Jus Navigandi as an Editors’ Pick, the article starts from the 2005 Federal Police operations that reached politicians and the economic elite, such as Narciso, Cevada and Confraria, and from the criticism that accompanied them in the context of the Correios Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI dos Correios), in order to address the suspicion that the institution served the interests of the government. The author, then a Federal Police Delegate and a graduate student in Criminal Sciences, argues for the legality of the investigative instruments employed and the qualifications of the personnel trained by the Academia Nacional de Polícia (National Police Academy), and concludes in favor of creating a body separate from the Federal Executive, with express constitutional guarantees for Federal Police Delegates, in particular functional independence and irremovability.