Metropolitan civil guard in vehicle from Piracicaba (SP) Piracicaba City Hall/Disclosure The report 'X-Ray of the Public Security Forces of Brazil 2026', carried out by the Brazilian Public Security Forum and released this Tuesday (4), revealed that the Municipal Guards have consolidated themselves as the second largest force in Brazil, behind only the Military Police (PM) and surpassing the Civil Police. Between 2023 and 2025, the workforce jumped from 95,175 to 107,457 agents. The number represents an increase of 12.9% in just two years. Today, GCMs account for 13.1% of the total public security force in the country. The cities in the Piracicaba region have 1,332 municipal guards, according to the document. Despite registering a drop in the number of personnel in the last decade, Piracicaba leads the region's ranking with 344 active guards. Ipeúna and Saltinho do not have municipal guards. Below, check the details of the workforce in 18 cities covered by g1 Piracicaba and referring to the year 2025. The data are from the Annual Social Information List (RAIS), a database managed by the Ministry of Labor and Employment. Number of Municipal Guards by City The state of São Paulo has the largest number of guards in the country, with 30,184 agents distributed across 222 municipalities, according to the Forum. ? Click to follow the g1 Piracicaba channel on WhatsApp Highlights from the region Águas de São Pedro (SP) hosted an event Conservation Brazil Aurélio Sal Águas de São Pedro is cited as one of the 44 cases in Brazil that fail to comply with the legal limit of personnel established by Federal Law nº 13.022/2014, which established the General Statute of Municipal Guards. Due to the population range (up to 50 thousand inhabitants), the limit would be 11 guards (0.4% of the population). However, the city operates with 14 agents, with a surplus of three professionals. The municipalities of Ipeúna and Saltinho are not included in the final list of cities with active guards presented by the sources cross-referenced in the report. g1 questioned the reason for the absence of guards in the cities, but city halls did not respond until the last update of this report. The space remains open. Increase in strength and change in duties Despite the increase in guards, the study warned of a scenario of lack of control and lack of governance. The document highlighted that 43.3% of municipal guard corporations in Brazil do not have control bodies, such as internal affairs or ombudsman offices. According to the report, this raises concerns about governance and the use of force, especially in municipalities that have opted for armament. “The biggest risk does not consist in the strengthening of the guards themselves, but in the reproduction, on a municipal scale and multiplied by more than one thousand and five hundred autonomous corporations, of the reactive and warlike professional model that three decades of public security research identified as the core of the institutional pathologies of the Brazilian state police”, he writes. The report also pointed out that there is a change in the duties of the guards, who no longer just protect buildings and public assets to act directly in community policing and urban security driven by court decisions, legislative changes and social pressures. VIDEOS: everything about Piracicaba and the region See more news about the region at g1 Piracicaba