Researcher Viviana Porto represented Plataforma CIPÓ at the 19th Meeting of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security, held from August 13 to 15 in Manaus (Amazonas).
In the panel “Challenges in Addressing Environmental Crimes”, she presented strategies to combat environmental offenses, emphasizing the lessons from the Belém Declaration (2023). Porto stressed that environmental crimes are deeply connected to organized crime, requiring joint responses that integrate public security, environmental protection, and international cooperation.
On August 13, the researcher also visited the newly inaugurated International Police Cooperation Center (CCPI) in Manaus. The new facility is considered strategic for the governance of the Amazon Plan (AMAS), playing a central role in planning, executing, and monitoring actions against organized crime. The CCPI will also be key in tackling environmental crimes and related offenses such as money laundering, land grabbing of public lands, and tax evasion, in line with the commitments of the Belém Declaration.
During the visit, Viviana Porto was accompanied by Humberto Freire, Director of the Federal Police’s Department for the Amazon and the Environment (DAMAZ), and by CCPI Coordinator Paulo Henrique Oliveira, who presented the facilities and objectives of the new unit.
This initiative represents an important step toward strengthening coordination between public security, the fight against organized crime, environmental protection, and Pan-Amazonian cooperation.
