Descrição, acesso e difusão dos acervos das Dops no Brasil

The Dictatorship Brazilian military, which took place between the years 1964 to 1985, created a state machine of repressive nature in order to monitor and repress those who considered dangerous to the maintenance of the regime. Such surveillance and enforcement activities had been based on the logic of mistrust and the National Security Doctrine. Within such apparatus are inserted the Order of Police Political and Social DOPS. These stations, although they were established in the Brazilian states during the 1920s and 1930s, had higher performance and representation during the military regime. With the democratization movements in Brazil such stations, indelible marks of the brutality of the regime, were gradually extinguished and their collections, from the 1990s, collected public archival institutions. The theoretical framework regarding three main topics called memory, truth and justice, organization and representation of information and evidence the character of the documents produced by the DOPS. In the first, after presenting the possibility to understand the files as places of memory, we pointed out the possibility of documents of DOPS be useful for the construction of various types of memories. The second presents the relevant concepts to Archival and Information Science to enable the understanding of intellectual access to collections of DOPS. We understand that the concepts used in Information Science and Archival converge, and the Information Science responsible for the study of any recorded information and Archivology the analysis, more specifically, the registered organic information. Finally in the section dedicated to the test of character of the discussion of the documents produced by DOPS we understand the documents the documents of DOPS as having the documentary proof character as legitimating discourses. This study aimed, in the light of theory and archival principles and Information Science, identify and analyze the means adopted by entities to promote intellectual access to collections of DOPS in a comparative perspective between the period of collection and the current period where it identifies a growing demand for access to these documents. The methodological approach was descriptive and applied, using bibliographical and documentary analysis, making use of the descriptions entered in the database Memories Revealed (BDMR) of 14 institutions that guard collections of DOPS, and questionnaires, which were answered by six of these institutions in the Brazilian states of Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Parana and Sao Paulo. The results pointed to different situations gatherings of collections by entities and a growing effort by state public archives and the National Archives, through the project Revealed Memories, to allow access to documents and information of these sets of documents. However, it is clear yet certain gap between archival principles and description of practices and access to documents and information.