They are standing outside the Favelas with their uniforms and their big guns, and they look kind of scary. UPP is the police of the Favelas(slums) in Rio de Janeiro. There is still not very many Favelas who has this program, but hopefully it will be more. The idea with UPP is to make it safer in the Favelas, normaly they are controlled by druglords and its not very safe. but the UPP comes in and stop the drug trafficing and make it safer. Before i thougth that all they did was to stand by the entrance to the Favela looking scary and arresting the people who were dealing drugs. But when we went to Rio we stayed in a place that was considerd a Favela and had UPP. The last day we were there we decided to ask to take pictures with them, but this was a longer prosses then expected and we had to go and ask their boss. He was nice and lett us take pictures with the officers but also he showed us around the office and told us about what they were doing. It was really interesting, and it turns out they do other stuff then to look scary. They have activities for the kids in the neighbourhood, Capuera, and other dance classes. they have a pool that the people can use. they have classes for the poeple who didnt get their education. They really get involved with the poeple who lives there, and they dont just try to make it safer.
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