"Preleções", "teorias" e as dinâmicas da formação dos polícias civis em Lisboa, 1867-1910

Abstract

This article examines the characteristics, practices and meanings of the training provided to the men that joined and made a career in the Polícia Civil in Lisbon between the late 1860s and the Republican revolution of 1910. Confronting political reforms, legal norms prescribed in the regulations and the working routines in police stations this article aims to understand the growing importance attributed to the trainning of policemen. lmportance evidenced by the fact that the central role played by police station chiefs in the training of police officers have resulted, from the final decade of the nineteenth century onwards, in a strengthening of policemen professional identity and in the circulation of the knowledge produced in the context of policemen training beyond the limits of the police.