Mateus Simões: And we managed to arrest more than 350 identified faction members, people who were already identified as being part of a faction.
Mateus Simões: How does that work?
Well-equipped police, well-trained and in sufficient numbers.
Mateus Simões: We will keep doing that; now it would help me a lot if the federal government had a national policy to stop the circulation, especially of weapons, within Brazil, because this is becoming a plague—the issue of seizing assault rifles, the volume of assault rifles circulating in Brazil today is inadmissible.
Mateus Simões: This is a problem especially because I can't carry out inspections on federal highways.