Resumen:
The State, when it organizes itself politically and administratively, creates institutions to control criminality, such as the organs of public security, the goal of which is to maintain control of the crime rates. Within the set of public institutions which are responsible for the Brazilian public security is the Civil Police, which, according to the Federal Constitution of 1988, exerts the important social function of investigating the criminal offenses. Thus, this research proposes working with so called dysfunctional elements in the police activity in the range of the Civil Police, caused by cultural elements which ended up being internalized throughout the years. Through the research of the organizational culture, its limits and constituent elements in the sphere of the Civil Police, it was observed that cultural elements, values and beliefs inherited throughout the Brazilian sociopolitical history, caused serious deviations from the functions of their public agents, which, instead of generating a lowering of the crime rates with their activity, caused a greater fomentation of violence, mainly the urban [violence]. Therefore, this research proposes to verify if culture is something that can be managed and what is the ethical role of the administrators in the public organizations in the context of the Civil Police, with the goal of generating organizational changes which can be socially beneficial.
