Program targets 4 simultaneous fronts: money, weapons, prisons and homicide investigation to dismantle organized crime
The president (PT) launched this Tuesday (May 12, 2026) the Brazil Program Against Organized Crime. The plan totals R$11.1 billion: R$1.065 billion in direct resources from the Union Budget and R$10 billion in a credit line from BNDES for States and municipalities.
The initiative is presented by the government as a restructuring of the national public security policy, built after months of negotiations with States, federal agencies and the Judiciary. It was launched in the middle of the discussion of the Public Security PEC and is considered a “son” of the anti-faction law.
Here are the main points of the Brazil Against Organized Crime Program:
Axis 1 — money (financial suffocation)
- financial suffocation (R$ 388.9 million): targets the economic strangulation of factions, focusing on tracking money laundering and decapitalizing organized crime. Execution will be carried out through FICCOs (Integrated Forces to Combat Organized Crime), with integration between the Federal Police, Federal Revenue, Coaf and the Central Bank, expanding the crossing of financial and asset data.
- mandatory sharing: States will not be able to refuse to send data to the federal government. The model establishes the creation of a single national repository, bringing together identities, police reports, court warrants and prison records, expanding the intelligence base used in financial and operational investigations.
Axis 2 — weapons (trafficking and circulation of weapons)
- arms trafficking (R$ 145.2 million): The plan creates a federal network to track, recover and block the diversion of weapons to organized crime. The axis includes strengthening border surveillance and integrating databases on the circulation and origin of weapons in the country.
Axis 3 — prisons (containment of the prison system)
- armored prisons (R$ 330.6 million): strategic measures in the States and DF, with maximum security reinforcement. Drones, scanners, cell phone jammers and isolation of faction leaders are planned, with the aim of reducing criminal communication from the prison system.
Axis 4 — homicide investigation (expertise and elucidation of crimes)
- Homicide investigation (R$201 million): the axis seeks to expand the capacity to elucidate violent crimes. The investment will be directed to strengthening the IMLs, with DNA kits, ballistic comparators and refrigerated vehicles, to speed up investigations and reduce the impunity rate.
EVENT IN PLANALTO WITHOUT OPPOSITORS
The event at Palácio do Planalto brought together ministers, heads of bodies in the Justice system, representatives of the Public Ministry, the Judiciary and state security secretaries.
The program has no defined end date, but depends on the Senate stopping since March, to guarantee permanent funding. The proposal would provide a long-term institutional basis for the policy to combat organized crime.
The government’s strategy was to present the program as a broad federal construction. The government maintains that the program does not depend on formal membership to function. Integration takes place through existing forces and the mandatory sharing of data between the Union and States.
The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Wellington César Lima, stated that the design of the program was built based on dialogue with different institutions. He also stated that the participation of federated entities was decisive. “This program, built on the words and contributions of our secretaries, is fundamental”these.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during the launch of the Brazil Against Organized Crime Program, at Palácio do Planalto; in the photo, he reads part of his speech
Lula stated that the country has not yet reached the necessary level of combating organized crime and defended greater institutional coordination.
He also criticized the fragmentation of responsibilities in public security and mentioned the need for dialogue with the Judiciary. “We have to talk a lot with the Judiciary”, he stated, citing recurring complaints from governors about prisons that are not sustainable.
In another part of the speech, Lula sought to move the debate on organized crime exclusively to the peripheries. He stated that the phenomenon crosses different social and institutional structures, the “upstairs”, as it is said in Planalto.
“Organized crime has never belonged to the favela. The police often look at the favela, but crime is often on the second floor, in the National Congress, in the Judiciary, in football”said Lula.
He also stated that the government seeks to expand international cooperation on the topic. When mentioning dialogue with the United States, he declared that there is an interest in cooperation in combating transnational organized crime. He cited the documents delivered to Donald Trump (Republican Party) with the North American as an example of this partnership.
