Sentence examples for pacifying unit from inspiring English sources

The UPP [police pacifying unit] has been here since 2012 and things started to change then.

The first Police Pacifying Unit – known as UPP – arrived in Rocinha in September 2012, following a military occupation the previous year.

The Police Pacifying Unit, known as the UPP, moved their headquarters within Alemão today.

The authorities claim that the drop is largely due to a special favela policing strategy that began in 2008, when the first Police Pacifying Unit, or UPP, was installed in the Santa Marta community in the south of Rio.

The UPPs (pacifying police unit) are expelling traffickers from the slums but they are taking refuge in other slums.

And in the specific case of murder due to police intervention, the results are evident, especially in the areas where they were installed Pacifying Police Units.

Bachelet cited the example of what is known as pacifying police units, a law enforcement and social services programme pioneered in Brazil in 2008.

First, special forces evict gang leaders from favelas; then "Pacifying Police Units" (UPPs) are set up, manned by officers trained in community policing.

Once the military police had established control, pacifying police units (UPPs) moved in, supposedly to pave the way for social programmes – the Brazilian government apparently aware that any attempt to deal with the drug gangs would have to have a positive component, offering the residents at least some of the many basics the state has thus far failed to provide.

Measures at one point, like Resolution 013 in 2007 allowed pacifying police units (UPP) to ban "cultural events" in the favelas.

The elevated police presence in Rio stems from UPPs, or "pacifying police units," installed in the city's favelas in the late 2000s.