Organized crime is the target of police operations this morning (15) Criminal groups operating from prisons are being targeted in a mega-operation that aims to execute 559 warrants in Paraná, São Paulo, Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso do Sul this Monday morning (15). g1 and RPC, a TV Globo affiliate in Paraná, found that most of the targets are related to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), considered the largest criminal organization in the country. Around a thousand police officers took to the streets to carry out 304 arrest warrants and another 255 search and seizure warrants. Part of the searches (92) and arrest warrants (176) were carried out in prisons, as they concern individuals already in prison. ✅Follow the g1 PR channel on WhatsApp The action, called Operation Panóptico (Convergência Nacional PR-01), is carried out by the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the Public Ministry of Paraná (MP-PR), in integration with the corporations of the Paraná Security Secretariat (Military Police, Civil Police, Criminal Police and Scientific Police). According to the MP-PR, investigations have been carried out since the end of 2025 in all regions of Paraná, with measures granted by bodies of the Judiciary in several districts of the state. "The objective of the operation is to hold the largest number of members of the criminal faction responsible, weakening their performance in the state, collecting evidence and seeking to elucidate other crimes that are being committed. Furthermore, the requested and ordered arrests are intended to prevent the criminal activities of these members from continuing", says the MP-PR. In Paraná, where the vast majority of court orders are concentrated, the warrants were served in 34 municipalities: Astorga, Arapoti, Candói, Cascavel, Cianorte, Cruzeiro do Oeste, Curitiba, Foz do Iguaçu, Francisco Beltrão, Guaíra, Guarapuava, Irati, Jandaia do Sul, Laranjeiras do Sul, Loanda, Londrina, Manoel Ribas, Maringá, Nova Londrina, Paraíso do Norte, Paranavaí, Paranacity, Piraquara, Ponta Grossa, Porecatu, Prudentópolis, Roncador, Santo Antônio da Platina, São José dos Pinhais, Sarandi, Sengés, Telêmaco Borba, Umuarama and União da Vitória. In addition, warrants were served in Naviraí (MS), Joinville (SC), Bauru (SP) and Itapecerica da Serra (SP). Also read: Behind bars and dressed in pink: The story of the nuns of 'perpetual adoration' who live cloistered in Paraná Agreement: Farmer who kept elderly couple in modern slavery for 20 years will pay R$70,000 to victims Car fell into river: Man misses work, colleagues go looking for him and find him dead Operation is being carried out this Monday (15) Monica Dau/RPC Police operation The name of the operation derives from the word “panopticon” (in Greek etymology, “that where everything is seen”), which was popularized by sociologist Michel Foucault in the work Discipline and Punish, to conceptualize the feeling of constant control from an architectural structure from which it is possible to observe a vast area from above, bringing the perception of perpetual and omnipresent surveillance. The operation falls within the guidelines of the National Group to Combat Criminal Organizations (GNCOC). The GNCOC brings together the Brazilian Public Ministry and was created in February 2002, on the initiative of the National Council of Attorneys General of the Public Ministries of the States and the Union (CNPG), to combat organized crime that affects the entire country. It is formed by Gaecos from across the country and works in an integrated manner with the police (Civil, Military, Federal and Federal Highway), the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) and state and federal revenue, among other bodies. Most watched videos from g1 Paraná: Read more news on g1 Paraná