Relações interorganizacionais e ação comunicativa: uma contribuição para o estudo da integração entre as organizações de segurança pública em Minas Gerais

Abstract

This research is a descriptive study in the field of public administration, involving a interorganizational policy network of public security in Minas Gerais/BRA State. The main actors are the Military Police, the Civilian Police, the District Attorney, the Judiciary and the Penitentiary Administration. However, this work has focused on both polices and prosecution, because they face criminality more directly and for methodological reasons. The aim was to find out which are the obstacles and the facilitators for settling a more dialogical communication between these three social subjects, using the interorganizational network as a background, and The Theory of Communicative Action, by Jürgen Habermas, as a perspective of analysis. The results showed that there is an agreement about the definition of the situation acknowledging the inefficiency of the security system performance as a whole, so that, the integration is welcomed. But there are disagreements involving the network structure. The main obstacles are the non-geographical coincidence and non-space share, the organizational culture, the lack of knowledge of each other, the organizational identity preservation, the reciprocal distrust, the vanities, and, mainly, the conflicts involving the investigation. Summarizing: a pre-interpreted lifeworld historically built; and the colonization of the lifeworld of the actors by the system world, more precisely, by Power subsystem, concerning the investigation issues and status. On the other hand, we find as facilitators the technology, the investments, the political and social environment, and the construction of dialogical spaces, and also the stimulation to personal interactions.