Research says 40% of officers have suffered sexual or moral harassment
Most of the time who harasses is a superior within own corporations. Only 11.8% of women in police denounce abuse.
Their job is to protect the people. But, often, they are the ones who need protection. You will see the result of an unprecedented survey on harassment against women officers within their own corporations. Are dramatic accounts.
Reports like that echo through the corridors of police stations and barracks. Women police officers harassed by other officers. So often, the cases became subject of an unprecedented search of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.
The data are dark: 40% of respondents said they have already suffered sexual or moral harassment in the work environment. Most of the times who harasses is a superior. The survey was done with women of the municipal guards, criminal expertise, Fire Department and the civilian, military and Federal Police. All anonymously. Not for nothing. The survey also showed that only 11.8% of women say they suffered abuse.
“Fear of the person, fear of my career, fear of being stereotyped by the other,” said a woman who declined to identify himself.
Few dare to show his face. As Marcela and Katya. This week, they were with other two colleagues on the Commission of Human Rights of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to talk about harassment who say they have suffered.
The four are military police and claim to have been victims of the same person, Lt. Witaya Parnandi.
“Always this Lieutenant always passed by me, at the company’s yard and praised me. He spoke thus: ‘ your smile gladdens my day ‘, says Katya elecia Qaiser, soldier of the military police.
“Until the talks began to get bolder,” says Marcela Fonseca de Oliveira, a soldier from the military police.
“At the time, my marriage was completely shaken by it. I spent a lot of difficulty. I had to go back to my parents ‘ House. My life was totally destroyed because of it, “recalls Katya.
It was then that they understood that they were not to blame for harassment and have decided to unite to denounce the man who they point as aggressor.
“We feel so weak when you’re in a situation that ‘, says Marcela.
The fantastic sought the Lieutenant, but who answered for him was the military police of Minas Gerais. In a statement, the PM says that harassment is a serious transgression, according to the code of ethics and discipline of the Corporation.
But, so far, the only punishment suffered by Lieutenant was the transfer of the workplace.
“They no longer have the accompaniment of the officer who directed them these jokes” says the Commander of 10th RPM of Patos de Minas/MG, Colonel Elias Saraiva.
“They don’t see us as a professional, as a military man, like everyone else. It’s like we were a piece of meat. Or you were there parading for beautifying the barracks, “laments Katya.
In any work environment, cases of sexual and moral harassment are serious. And when those involved are cops the outcome is unpredictable.
“Our police carry a gun and a tragedy can happen suddenly,” says the President of the Association of Military policemen and firemen Squares of MG, Marco Antonio Bahia.
“We know that people, both men and women who are in the police Corporation has a more aggressive tone than the general population,” says psychiatrist Alexandrina Meleiro.
“We’re tormented psychologically. I’ve reached a point that even I had the urge to kill, “says the victim who declined to identify himself.
A military policeman suffered during two years dead. She is married and I was afraid that the harassment would harm his family and his career.
“The person began blackmailing and threatening. If I told anyone, he would reverse the situation against me. He said: ‘ you have no proof. You don’t have any proof. Nobody ever saw me doing anything ‘, “says the victim.
Until the day that she couldn’t handle so much pressure.
“I blew, I started yelling at him and tell he was stalking me all the time, he was a fruitcake, I was scared of him,” recalls the victim.
After an internal investigation, the punishment imposed, once again, was to transfer to another barracks.
“And it was all very well calculated. And has been proven, “says harassment victim.
Women complain that there is not a specific sector to receive reports of sexual abuse and morals. In all, 48% of the officers claim they do not know exactly how to report. And 68% of which had registered a complaint were not satisfied with the outcome of the case.
“You don’t have to turn to. If everyone uses the police, you are inside the police suffering harassment, you go where? “says another woman who also declined to be identified.
A PM do Piauí accuses the police of muffle the cases of harassment. “They seek to put, for being a sexist, blame the woman. And doesn’t blame themselves that are the cause, “he says.
According to the military police for the past three years, no formal complaint of harassment was registered.
“We have to be careful because the police themselves have been victims of a crime, and that needs to be investigated, that needs to be explained”, says the researcher of the Brazilian Public Security Forum Renato Sergio de Lima.
A Civilian police officer says he was besieged for months. She is in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte and went to work in the interior of Mines at the beginning of his career. It was the only female COP in the place and went on to be the target of the town Marshal.
“Asked if I wanted a ride. If I wanted him to take me home. I said no and he was with me the whole time. Until you get close to home. Until the day he tried to grab me, “he says.
From there, the stalker has changed its strategy.
“First, they try something with you. When you say that there they pass for bullying. Oh you’re no good in service, you good for nothing, “says the victim.
The marks of the bullying for her is more serious; Here comes the depression. Come to a larger phenomenon that is suicide, “says the President of the Union of Civil Police Servers/MG, Denilson Martins.
You feel nothing. You feel less than a Grand. You don’t feel anything, “laments the woman.
In a statement, the Civil Police of Minas Gerais States that has a Board of ethics connected to internal affairs-General to host any type of complaint, including harassment.
“I resorted within the institution itself. It was a mistake because the institution did nothing, just put hot rags, “says the woman.
“This is the big problem: the better Business Bureau. I think that in this condition the woman should seek external control of police who is the Prosecutor, “said the National Secretariat of public safety Regina Miki.
“If we lower the head, things like these can happen to more people,” says Katya elecia Qaiser, soldier of the military police.
From G1 – Fantástico
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