BETWEEN CALCULATION AND VALUE: CHALLENGES OF INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY AND THE PROTECTION OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE MILITARY POLICE OF AMAZONAS

Abstract

This article analyzes the transition of the public security management model in Amazonas, moving from a utilitarian logic based on "prices" and sanctions to an ethics grounded in values and human dignity. Historically based on Bentham's cost-benefit premise, police management faces the erosion of the ethics of conviction by treating moral failures as mere administrative costs. Through qualitative, bibliographic, and documentary research focusing on the Statute of Military Police Officers and Ordinance No. 001/2025 (PMAM) the study discusses the identity conflict of the police officer, often dehumanized and seen as a mechanical executor. The results indicate that the punitive model generates defensive inertia and mental illness. It concludes that the effectiveness of public security depends on recognizing the police officer as a subject of rights and the application of conventionality control in internal relations. The study proposes the humanization of management and the institutionalization of biopsychosocial support flows, aiming to restore the meaning of work to the agent. Only by protecting the operator's subjectivity will it be possible to consolidate an institution that acts through the shared value of justice and unrestricted respect for Human Rights within the Democratic State of Law.