The senator (Repubicanos-DF) criticizes the lack of data standardization and underreporting in a report that will be delivered this Tuesday (17) to the Public Security Commission of the .
The opinion makes an assessment of public policies. The senator compiled data on the topic, including the latest Public Security Map, from 2024 —base year 2023—, which shows 82,287 cases of disappearances in Brazil, an average of approximately 225 per day.
In October, the Senate committee approved a request to carry out investigations in three units of the federation: Distrito Federal, Pará and Santa Catarina. Damares coordinated the work in the locations with the support of consultants and advisors.
In the opinion, Damares, former government minister (PL), says that the statistics regarding disappearances and missing people in Pará draw attention.
She cites system data from 2015 to 2023 that points to 11,352 missing people in the state. “On the other hand, only less than 1,382 people were located, around 12% of the total.”
The senator highlights that in Santa Catarina the rate of finding missing persons exceeds 95%, on average, per year. The Federal District, according to the report, currently has the highest disappearance rate in the country, with an annual average of more than 92 cases per thousand inhabitants.
Damares, however, states that the federation unit is a reference in locating missing people, with an annual average of 85% of people located from 2015 to October 2024.
In the report, the senator also makes suggestions to improve public policies for searching for missing persons, such as the implementation of the National Identity Card throughout the country, measures to combat underreporting of data and the standardization of data collected from the Police Report.
It also suggests reinforcing the record of reappearances of people and the creation of specific investigation protocols based on the profile of the missing person, among other points.
The senator also proposes legislative changes, such as changing the concept of missing person to categorize cases into three types — voluntary, involuntary and forced — and classifying the crime of forced disappearance as a heinous crime.
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