O combate aos crimes transnacionais nas Águas Jurisdicionais Brasileiras por meio de operações interagências: situação atual (2022) e oportunidades de melhoria

Abstract

The increase in transnational crime in the post-cold war world awakens the attention of Nations to the new needs in the field of Security, mainly in border areas. The Brazilian Jurisdictional Waters, rich in economic resources (CARVALHO, 2018), have been standing out on the national scene as a source of wealth. To its enormous extent, protecting the Brazilian maritime border is a challenge for the various actors interested in the marine security sector. It often exceeds the individual capacity of each institution. In addition, they support each other in carrying out their activities, usually without coordination and integrated planning. However, this form of action reflects an inadequate model capable of generating duplicity of actions and wasting resources. In this sense, the academic interest in Interagency Operations for Maritime Security, in search of the best way to integrate forces to achieve common goals. However, the theme still does not find a place in Brazilian literary publications. They are restricted to studies developed in high studies of military schools. Therefore, it was carried out through qualitative analytical methodology, a bibliographical and documental research on the subject, as well as analysis of concrete cases of criminal incidence and interagency operations, to establish the current (2022) situational framework for combating transnational crime companies through interagency operations in Brazil and identify suggestions for improvement. As a result, it was found that Maritime Security is part of a multidimensional environment under threat from twelve types of transnational criminal activity, fought by a list of ten actors with interest in maritime Security. Regarding Interagency Operations in Maritime Security, challenges, positive factors, and national examples reflect three different forms of action. International performance models were also analyzed with an integrated system for Maritime Security. Given the regulatory legal complexity observed for the activity of the security forces at sea, together with the inexistence of a Doctrine dedicated to Interagency Operations in Maritime Security, it is suggested the creation of an updated Maritime Criminal Law Manual, as well as the development of an Interagency Operations Doctrine dedicated to the topic Maritime Security