Da experiência à construção da identidade do Polícia de protecção: um estudo de caso na Escola Prática da PRM-Matalane

Abstract

.When we try to study the construction of police identity in this work, we take as a starting point the idea that the relationship between individuals and professional institutions within which they are embedded does not occur in a linear fashion. Rather, it is a dialectical relationship in which the first have ability to interpret the values and norms imposed upon and passed in order to regulate their activity. Thus, this study had the aim to understand the construction of police identity, taking as an analytical backbone operationalized the concept of social path from the phenomenological theory. We use phenomenology of Alfred Schutz in order to consider its theoretical principle that the action of individuals is a biographical situation, so their understanding necessarily refer the interpretation of past experiences upon which accumulates knowledge and guides if and organizes the experiences present. Indeed, we interpret police identity from the experiences inherent to the trajectories of respondent‟s policemen. We take an approach of qualitative method, which led us to the use of semi-structured interviews to collect data that allowed us to observe the interviewees in their family, in peer groups, schools and the labor market deal of different forms with the norms and values imposed upon it, with those who are guided by integrate compliance and incurring transgressions. Althoughthe interviewees are aware of the norms and values of the police institution and have the awareness that it is binding, we noticed that by the way they give you is not the same. Thus we find those who build their identity reproducing what is transmitted and those who self-build as negotiating with the police that is transmitted them to them. From the point of view of its trajectory, we conclude that those who reproduce the values and norms of the institution always adopted this posture along its trajectory and those who trade always had a spirit of non-compliance with certain rules and values.