Resumen de Prática Policial e o Not Being-at-ease: a importância do investimento em saúde mental na polícia

Guilherme Bertassoni da Silva, Raíssa Miranda da Cunha Vargas, Adriano Furtado Holanda

• español

  Public security is a duty of the State as defined in the 1988 Federal Constitution. The structure of police life is rigid, hierarchical and significantly anachronistic with the development of the world of work today. Moreover, the police organization is a recurrent subject of debate, in which the population routinely questions its credibility. Even if they are seen in this way, police officers are generally professionals from the lower or lower middle class who work very close to their places of residence and social interaction. The difficulty of police officers in separating the personal and professional aspects has been indicated as an important focus of psychological distress for this worker. Through these considerations, we intend to link police practice with the concept of not being-at-ease of Mariana Ortega's phenomenology and point to strategies for preventing and coping with the psychological illness of these professionals.

• English

  Public security is a duty of the State defined in the Federal Constitution of 1988. The structure of police life is rigid, hierarchized anachronistically in comparison with the development of the world of work today. Furthermore, the police organization is a recurrent theme of debates, in which, routinely, the population questions its credibility. Even though they are seen in this way, the police officer is usually a professional from the lower or lower-middle class and who works very close to their places of residence and social circle. The police officers’ difficulty in separating personal and professional life aspects has been indicated as an important source of psychological distress for those in this occupation. Through these considerations, we intend to link police practice with Mariana Ortega's phenomenological not being-at-ease concept to point to prevention and coping strategies for these professionals' psychological illnesses.

• português

  A segurança pública é dever do Estado definido na Constituição Federal de 1988. A estrutura da vida policial é rígida, hierarquizada de maneira significativamente anacrônica com o desenvolvimento do mundo do trabalho na atualidade. Ademais, a organização policial é recorrente tema de debates, nos quais, rotineiramente, a população questiona sua credibilidade. Ainda que seja visto desta forma, o policial é geralmente um profissional advindo da classe média baixa ou baixa e que atua muito próximo aos seus locais de moradia e convívio social. A dificuldade dos policiais em separar o aspecto pessoal e profissional tem sido indicada como um foco importante de sofrimento psíquico para este trabalhador. Por meio dessas considerações, pretende-se vincular a prática policial com conceito de not being-at-ease da fenomenologia de Mariana Ortega e apontar para estratégias de prevenção e enfrentamento ao adoecimento psíquico desses profissionais.