A (in)segurança silenciosa nos campus universitários: estudo na Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

Abstract

The public safety is amongst the mains social problems in Brazil and affects all ambits of society, including universities. The main objective of this research was to do a diagnosis of institutional security at the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro – UFTM (Federal University of the Triângulo Mineiro) with the purpose of subsidizing the development and implementation of a security policy in the university, and has as a specific objective to analyze the security policy of other universities which have a consolidated security policy, such as the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE (Federal University of Pernambuco). It is a case study, with bibliographical research, documentary, semi-structured interview and focal group. It is a qualitative, descriptive study and an applied research. Data collection consisted of interviews with those responsible for the safety of federal universities and focus groups with the participation of the UFTM academic community, among students, teachers and administrative technicians. An organizational diagnosis was done that showed the silent (in) security that UFTM is experiencing, owing to structural and organizational problems. In view of the findings, a proposal for intervention was elaborated, mainly related to the creation of an institutional security policy with risk management, in order to improve the security of the university.