Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State


The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State is the police force responsible for criminal investigations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Formed in 1808, it is subordinated to the state government and directed by a Chief of Police, chosen by the state's Governor.

Roles and functions today

The police activity of prevention and repression of the penal infractions is exercised by the Police Stations situated in the police circumscriptions which correspond to the geographic areas of the suburbs of Rio Metropolitan Region or the country municipalities.
Each Police Station is directed by a Police Delegate helped by Adjunctive Police Delegates, chiefs of police groups and police services.
According to their geographic localization in the territory of the State, the Police Stations are subordinate to one of the three great operational departments of the Police: of the Capital, of the "Baixada Fluminense" and Inland.
The criminal investigations developed by the police stations may be supported by the Specialized Police Department, through its specialized organs when repressing the homicide crimes of unknown authors, narcotics, robbery, theft and large frauds.

Special Operations

The CORE, formed in 1969, is a police tactical unit within the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro.
It is a special service which use highly trained policemen in dangerous tasks that Police have to face daily.

Guns

In popular media

The Rio civil police appear in Fast Five, the fifth movie of the Fast and the Furious series, where many of them are corrupt and in the payroll of drug lord Hernan Reyes, being sent to try and retrieve his vault full of his drug money after it was stolen from the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State station alongside the PMERJ and Federal Highway Police. However, thanks to Dominic Toretto and his team, all of their pursuing cruisers are destroyed, their corrupt officers slaughtered, and Reyes himself executed by DSS Agent Luke Hobbs in revenge for murdering his team back in the favelas. Their primary police cruisers used in the film are mostly 6th and 7th generation models of the Dodge Charger, but some use the 1st generation of the Ford Focus sedan.