Sérgio Cabral
| Sérgio Cabral Filho | |
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| 61st Governor of Rio de Janeiro | |
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In office January 1, 2007 – April 3, 2014 |
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| Vice Governor | Luiz Fernando Pezão |
| Preceded by | Rosinha Garotinho |
| Succeeded by | Luiz Fernando Pezão |
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Member of the Federal Senate from Rio de Janeiro |
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In office February 1, 2003 – December 31, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Geraldo Cândido |
| Succeeded by | Régis Fichtner |
| President of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro | |
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In office January 1, 1995 – January 1, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | José Nader |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Picciani |
| Member of a State Assembly | |
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In office January 1, 1991 – January 1, 2003 |
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| Constituency | Rio de Janeiro |
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Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho January 27, 1963 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Political party | PMDB |
| Spouse(s) | Adriana de Lourdes Ancelmo (2004–2011; separated) |
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963) is a Brazilian politician and journalist.
He was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the 2006 Brazilian general elections for state offices and the Brazilian Congress and sworn into office on January 1, 2007.
His father is the journalist Sérgio Cabral.
Cabral Filho was a representative in the Rio de Janeiro state legislature from 1991 to 2002 and presided over it from 1995 to 2002. In the Brazilian 2002 general elections, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned to run in the Rio de Janeiro Gubernatorial elections, having been replaced in Brazilian Senate by Regis Fitchner.
He had also run for mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 on a PSDB (Brazilian Social Democratic Party) ticket, but his election as governor happened after he had moved to the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party), at which time he and his running mate, Luiz Fernando de Sousa, won 68% of the valid votes (5,129,064 votes) in the second round of voting against PPS, or Popular Socialist Party, candidate Denise Frossard who only received 32% of the valid votes.
Cabral was selected to make formal apologies to 120 individuals, including Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's 36th president who would later be impeached, for human rights' abuses inflicted on them during the dictatorship that was in power in Brazil from 1961 to 1985. On November 17, 2016, Cabral was arrested on charges of corruption.
Cabral became governor at a time of uncertain economic prospects and serious security challenges in his state of Rio de Janeiro. During the election campaign for governor in 2006, he had praised the "zero tolerance" security policies touted by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and had pledged to root out police corruption and improve services in Rio's favelas.
After visiting Colombia in 2007 to observe that country's success in the realm of public safety, Cabral secured additional funding for the police and tasked his Public Security Secretary, José Mariano Beltrame, with spearheading a plan to improve security. In 2008, the state and city governments launched a community policing program called Pacifying Police Units, or UPPs in Rio. In contrast to previous police practices, UPPs created a sustained, long-term police presence in favelas, including the Cidade de Deus, Complexo do Alemão and Dona Marta. Their operations make use of Rio military police's BOPE units in fighting urban crime and also use their Police Pacification Units for extended policing. These policies led to decreased homicide rates in the favelas where UPPs were set up and international attention for Governor Cabral.
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