Contextualization

In recent years, the Legal Amazon has experienced an increase in crime and violence, which, in addition to affecting safety and quality of life, has become a relevant vector of deforestation, driven by illicit economies, such as illegal logging, mining, land grabbing. lands and agricultural activities with environmental liabilities. As the institutional skills and interinstitutional configurations of public security and environmental inspection forces in the region do not lead to operational capacity or adequate levels of integration to face the situation, in response, the Federal Government created, in 2023, the Amazon Plan: Security and Sovereignty (Amas Plan) focused on the needs and specificities of the nine states that make up the area and having as its pillar the promotion of broad federal cooperation, the strengthening and integration of public security and national defense bodies operating in the Legal Amazon.

Amas is aligned with the strategic objective axes foreseen in the 5th phase of the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), notably the Environmental Monitoring and Control axis, and the thematic focus of the biennium 2023-2025, established by Amazon Fund Steering Committee (COFA). The Plan will encourage coordinated and integrated effort between the Federal Government, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the states of the Legal Amazon, which involves articulation with different actors that play a relevant role in the development of the region.

THE PROJECT

The project is part of the context of the Amazon Plan implementation: Security and Sovereignty – AMAS (“Amas Plan” or “Amas”), established by the Federal Government through Decree No. 11,614/2023, which aims to promote public security focused on the “needs and specificities of the states that make up the Legal Amazon, aimed at reducing environmental and related crimes” (Article 2 of the Decree). To this end, the Plan establishes as its pillar the promotion of broad federal cooperation, strengthening and integrating public security and national defense bodies operating in the Legal Amazon.

Its main components are:

1. Federal police:with the creation of the Center for International Police Cooperation (CCPI), the component supports the governance structure of the Amas Plan and the coordination between those responsible for public security; expands intelligence and inspection capacity, enabling the planning and execution of integrated operations; and expands its territorial presence to combat crimes, through investment in its operational capacity. 
2. Federal Highway Police:This component seeks to expand the operational capacity and territorial presence of the PRF to combat environmental and related crimes related to the dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation.
3. Environmental Operations Company of the National Public Security Force (COA): This third component contributes to the mobilization of a new police force to operate in the Legal Amazon through the implementation of the COA's tactical-operational capacity, which will be added to the existing ones, and will also be responsible for supporting the CCPI, especially in articulation with State security forces within the scope of the Amas Plan. 
4. Police Forces of the nine States of the Legal Amazon:This component foresees the expansion of the territorial presence of the security forces of the states of the Legal Amazon through the improvement of tactical capacity, in addition to greater mobility of public security forces in the vast areas of navigable rivers in the Legal Amazon.

INTERVENTION LOGIC

The project is part of the “Monitoring and Control” component (2) of the Amazon Fund Logical Framework, contributing to the direct effect “2.1 - Structured and modernized environmental monitoring, control and accountability institutions”.