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The Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais (PMMG) (Minas Gerais Military Police) is a military law-enforcement organization in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.It is both the oldest and the second largest state police force in all of Brazil, with approximately 48,000 officers under its command.
Throughout Brazil the Military Police is known by the acronym PM (for Policia Militar), followed by the abbreviation of the State, except in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, where the unit is known as BM (for Brigada Militar, "Military Brigade"). [citation needed]
Polícia Militar do Estado do Ceará Regimento de Polícia Montada Coronel Moura Brasil; Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais Regimento de Cavalaria Alferes Tiradentes (RCAT) established 1775, originally under the name of Regimento Regular de Cavalaria de Minas [12] Polícia Militar da Bahia Esquadrão de Polícia Montada
Fort Coimbra on the banks of the Paraguay River. After the independence of South American colonies, Mato Grosso remained strategically important to Brazil as a buffer zone between the country's central provinces (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro) and the influences of the Platine region (Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia). [1]
The Military Fire Brigade, in general, is a part of the Military Police, although it does not perform traditional policing duties. It is subordinated to the state government. However, in the States of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, the Military Fire Brigade is an autonomous military corporation, part of State Department of Civil Defense.
Operation Popeye was the advance of the Tiradentes and Caicó detachments of the Brazilian Army and the Military Police of Minas Gerais (PMMG), from Minas Gerais, to Rio de Janeiro and Brasília during the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. Their rearguard was protected within Minas Gerais by operations Cage and Silence.
www.policiamilitar.rj.gov.br portuguese The Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State ( Portuguese : Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro ) (PMERJ) like other military polices in Brazil is a reserve and ancillary force of the Brazilian Army , and part of the System of Public Security and Brazilian Social Protection. [ 2 ]
Special Police Operations Battalion (PMMG) – is a GATE type unit of the Military Police of Minas Gerais State; Tobias de Aguiar Ostensive Patrols (ROTA) – An elite ostensive patrol battalion and quick reaction force of the Military Police of São Paulo State.