The objective of this text is to work out a sociological approach about the police organization, their function as a repressive machine of the State and the strategies of the construction for a consensual legitimity about the role of the Police in the modern and contemporary society. The study also proposes as investigation directed to a theoretical-methodological pluralism, through which the internationalization of the sociological view, mediated by the globalization process, makes possible the understanding of the police in a society yet in a process of a democratic consolidation.
police organization; state; violence; contemporary society; democratic, consolidation