["After a police officer fatally shot a man in 2011 in Sao Sebastiao da Boa Vista, a town in Marajo, furious residents freed the prisoners in the local jail, burned the police station to the ground and sent police officers fleeing to other parts of the island.

In the town of Soure, where the 8th Battalion operates from a small station adjacent to a corral with about 10 buffaloes, police officers claim that patrolling on the animals can assuage tension with residents by bringing low-ranking personnel in the military police, commonly called soldiers, into contact with people who use buffaloes for transportation, farming or other work."](https://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/to-soften-image-officers-patrol-on-horned-beasts/article_717b1216-c893-5719-8acf-d5de192e4f59.html)