Military Police of São Paulo State

Military Police of Sao Paulo State
Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo
Abbreviation PMESP

Badge of the Military Police of Sao Paulo State
Motto Loyalty and Constancy
Lealdade e Constância
Agency overview
Formed December 15, 1831
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* State of São Paulo, [[]]
Map of police jurisdiction.
Size 248,209.426 km2 (95,834.195 sq mi)
Population 41,055,734 (2006)
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters São Paulo
Website
Official website
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Military Police) is a law enforcement agency (Polícia Militar) of the military kind in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the largest state police force in the country, with over 100,000 personnel in its ranks, distributed across several battalions all over the state as well as within the Greater São Paulo region (Grande São Paulo) which itself comprises 40 cities and towns.

Under the United Nations, in cooperation with the Brazilian Army, the Military Police of São Paulo State has served in Angola, Mozambique, East-Timor, Sudan, and Haiti.

Mission and organization

Its primary function is to perform the patrolling of public places such as city streets, state highways and forests in the entire state and also authority escorting, intelligence and reconnaissance (P2) and crime prevention duties. São Paulo Fire Fighters belongs to PMESP and are equally structured as a state police organization.

The PMESP is further divided into specialized units as follows:

History

Mounted Police officers in São Paulo, Brazil.
Police cars of PMESP - 2007.

The police force was founded by Brigadier General Rafael Tobias de Aguiar on December 15, 1831, originally as the São Paulo Municipal Imperial Guard. The MPSP of today was raised in 1935 as a result of its involvement in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932.

Weapons

Pistols

Shotguns

Assault rifles

Submachine guns

Sniper Rifles

Vehicles inventory

Model Type Notes Photo
Chevrolet Corsa Patrol car
Chevrolet Classic Patrol car
Volkswagen Gol Patrol car
Blazer Response car
TrailBlazer Response car
Fiat Palio Weekend Patrol car Vehicle standard
Hilux SW4 Response car
Mitsubishi L200 Response car
Volkswagen SpaceFox Patrol car
Volkswagen Parati Patrol car
Fiat Ducato Police van
Volkswagen Kombi Police van
Volkswagen Truck Police truck

Notable officers

Conte Lopes, now a political representative, was a commanding officer (ranked as captain) behind the famous ROTA units in the 1970s and 1980s.

Cel. Ubiratan Guimarães, the commanding officer of the police operation resulting in the Carandiru massacre, was a high-ranked officer in the PMESP ranks (ranked as colonel).

References

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