Moraes' plan is "amateurish," says the president of the Security Forum.
The president of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security, Renato Sérgio de Lima, assessed the National Security Plan launched by Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes last week as "amateurish"; speaking to Justificando, he criticized the proposal: "It doesn't contain a schedule, budget, responsibility matrix, what percentage of each goal is being achieved, etc. What was presented is based on 2014 data," he said.
GGN newspaper - The president of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security, Renato Sérgio de Lima, assessed the National Security Plan launched by Alexandre de Moraes, Minister of Justice, last week as "amateurish." Speaking to Justificando, he criticized the proposal. "It doesn't contain a schedule, budget, responsibility matrix, what percentage of each goal is being achieved, etc. What was presented is based on 2014 data," he said.
Justifying
A fashionable resource in presentations by Brazilian authorities, PowerPoint had another day of stardom last Friday (10), when the Minister of Justice Alexandre de Moraes called a press conference to announce the new National Public Security Plan in PPT, as is customary in launches, but in this case there will be no official supplement, remaining only in the promotional material.
Although it is indeed an interesting resource for initial presentations, PowerPoint was never intended to be a definitive public policy document, partly because its inherent features preclude any in-depth analysis of the subject matter. An interesting example appears on the first few pages of the Plan, where words are linked by arrows that do not express how the interaction between the words will occur: Capacity Building-Intelligence-Joint Action.
In the descriptions of actions announced by the Ministry in each of these three areas, another feature of the PowerPoint presentation prevents one from knowing more about what the program is about. This is because the measures are announced in titles, which do not contain any description of how, when, how much, and where they will be implemented.
For example, the first announced action, "Creation of a Working Group," leaves a series of questions unanswered: Who will create it? Who will compose this group? How long until the Matrix is presented? Among many other questions.
In areas such as combating violence against women, the PowerPoint presentation once again demonstrates its limitations by outlining arrows that fail to explain how the interaction and integration between the arrows will occur, or who will be responsible for what.
Therefore, PowerPoint presentations are followed by explanatory documents for each action, including budget estimates, schedules, and personnel planning for implementing the ideas. However, in this case, the Ministry of Justice presented this PowerPoint as the complete plan.
In an interview with Justificando, the president of the Brazilian Forum for Public Security, Renato Sérgio de Lima, criticized the amateurish nature of the proposal – "It doesn't contain a schedule, budget, responsibility matrix, what percentage of each goal is being achieved, etc. What was presented is based on 2014 data," says Renato.
"How will the plan be implemented?" Lima asked. In fact, that is a question that is not answered in the plan.
Contacted by the newsroom, the Press Office of the Ministry of Justice confirmed that the National Public Security Plan is in PowerPoint format and there are no other documents on the subject.