NETWORKED POLICE POWER: INTERAGENCY GOVERNANCE AND CRIME PREVENTION IN MANAUS’ INTEGRATED INSPECTION CENTERS

Abstract

Contemporary urban security challenges state models grounded in a rigid separation between administrative inspection, overt policing, social protection and the production of technical evidence. In territories where administrative irregularities, criminal offences, social vulnerability and technical risk overlap, no single agency holds, on its own, the competence and means for an adequate response. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the Integrated Inspection Centers (CIF) of Manaus, examined through Operação Impacto, and proposes the category of networked police power. The aim is to understand to what extent the CIF can be read as a manifestation of this power and as an institutional technology of urban security. The research is qualitative, bibliographic and documentary, designed as a single instrumental case study, drawing on Administrative Law, the theory of public-policy instruments, network governance and crime prevention, as well as on normative documents and operational records. It is argued that networked police power does not arbitrarily expand state authority, but qualifies it by articulating police, administrative, technical and protective agencies without suppressing each institution’s competence. The study concludes that the model’s legitimacy depends on planning, proportionality, reasoned and documented acts, functional traceability, data protection and outcome evaluation that goes beyond operational productivity.