José Mariano Benincá Beltrame (born 13 May 1957) is a Brazilian federal police commissioner and former Secretary of Security of

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Biography

Beltrame was born in Santa Maria, in a family of Italian descent. He graduated in

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from the

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as well as

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and

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from the

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. He specialized in Strategic Intelligence at the Salgado de Oliveira University and the War College. He attended the Intelligence course of the National Secretary of Public Security and Police Intelligence Data Analysis, Guardian System programs.

Public life

Beltrame joined the

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in 1981 as an agent, mainly in the area of narcotics repression He served in the intelligence sector, fighting

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in several states. He taught classes and lectures at the Postgraduate Course in Intelligence and

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at the

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. In the Rio de Janeiro Federal Police he served as Superintendence and he was the coordinator of Mission Support, head of the Intelligence Service and

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Projects

Beltrame was one of the creators of the

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, the UPPs, applied in the state of Rio de Janeiro and with possible expansion to the state of

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and others. In November 2010, he was one of the main articulators of the Vila Cruzeiro favela takeover

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and following the invasion to Complexo do Alemão at Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. In this operation, over 42 tonnes of

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, 330 kg of

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, crack, heavy weaponry, large amounts of ammunition, cars and motorcycles, as well as disruption in drug trafficking with the arrest of several drug trafficking chiefs.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beltrame, Jose Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian police officers Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni Brazilian people of Italian descent 1957 births Living people