The Secretary of Public Security of, sent federal parliamentary amendments to the very folder he commands to build a battalion and renovate a core of expertise in his electoral stronghold, Sorocaba, in the interior of São Paulo.
The Secretary of the Government (Republicans) is or even the head of state management in the 2026 elections, if the current occupant of the Bandeirantes Palace.
With an eye on the race, deriving from Jair Bolsonaro’s by Ciro Nogueira – he does not officially confirm the change, but, according to the summit of his new party, the announcement was not yet made for a strategic issue.
Captain of the PM Reserve, Derrite was elected federal deputy in 2018 and was reelected in 2022, graduating from office to command the Security Secretariat. In the meantime, in 2023, he allocated R $ 6.5 million to two projects of the portfolio itself, as transfered.br.
Deputies may ask for permission and reassure the position temporarily, just as he did last year to report in the House a project that prohibited the “Saidinhas” of prisoners.
Most of the amendment for him (R $ 5.7 million) was directed to the construction of a Military Police Battalion in the North Zone of Sorocaba, whose works are scheduled to begin in May this year and end in August 2026, two months from the elections.
The rest (R $ 794 thousand) went to hire a project for the renovation of the new headquarters of the Criminalistic Expertise Center and the Municipality’s Medical-Legal Expertise Center. Both actions were announced as initiatives of the Tarcisio Secretariat of Management, without mentioning the use of amendments.
Sought, the folder confirmed that it has reserved most of the money for the creation of the Battalion, said that “the process is underway” and said it has already hired the reform of the expert nuclei, the latter of the CDHU (Housing and Urban Development Company of the State of SP).
However, the agency did not comment on the sending of amendments by the secretary himself or the eventual electoral use of this amount. The report also asked why the use of the federal appeal was not disclosed and which company was hired for the Battalion’s work, but the government did not respond.
According to Bruno Morassutti, advocacy director of the NGO are knowing, specializing in access to public information, and there is no rule that prohibits the allocation of amendments to a body led by the parliamentary. “But that’s not how the budget was done to work,” he says.
He says there are similar practices among ministers, who seek deputies to allocate resources to the mysteries. “This is the problem of amendments. They do not have a coherence,. It is the parliamentary who decides and point, gains the budget who has the most power and influence.”
The lawyer understands that the fact that the state government does not disclose the use of federal amendments violates Article 48 of the Fiscal Responsibility Law, which determines the “release to the full knowledge and monitoring of society, in real time, of detailed information on budgetary and financial execution”.
Derrite’s money was committed (released for payment) by the Union in July 2023. Three weeks later, the secretary announced for the first time the construction of the Battalion, in an interview with TV TEMA, affiliated with TV Globo in São Paulo interior based in Sorocaba.
“We will create, until the end of the new management [de Tarcísio]a new Territorial Battalion of the Military Police here in Sorocaba. In addition to the seventh battalion, we will have another unit, increasing or almost bending the staff, “he said, without citing the amendments.
The money was passed on to the state government a month later. As it is an individual amendment – in the modality “Amendment Pix” – it is of mandatory payment by the Lula Government (PT), who made the analysis of the money only this year, after recent determinations of the Supreme Court (STF).
In January, Derrite spoke again about the matter, announcing that the State Department of Education ceded the land for the construction of the Battalion and that there will be an increase of 400 police in the unit, in an interview with Local Cruzeiro FM radio.
“We all know that the northern zone of Sorocaba grew too much in number of inhabitants, in demands, and it is important that we had a new unit. It is a wish of over 20 years, because when I joined the PM, 22 years ago, it was already a demand Sorocaba to have a new battalion,” he said.
On the same day, the Secretariat published a statement announcing “about $ 6 million to build a new battalion”, which “represents another investment of the state government to increase the sense of security of the population” – no means without mentioning the use of amendments.
Sorocaba is the hometown and political cradle of Derrite. It was there that he received the largest number of votes both in 2018 (4,865) and 2022 (29,135), not to mention the state capital.
Last year, the Secretariat of Public Security made two bids for the renovation of another PM unit in the city where the winner was the company Alphapav Construções e Comércio, which does not work at the registered address, according to February report.
The contracts were signed by the Integrated Center for Command and Control (CICC), a turbocated body with funds by derrite and headed by a friend of yours, former PM and political scientist João Henrique Martins.
The secretary also attended the municipal elections of Sorocaba last year, often appearing in videos and posts by ally and state deputy Danilo Balas (PL), who eventually lost the dispute for reelected mayor Rodrigo Manga (Republicans).
