Abstract:
The application of the principle of insignificance by the Police Chief brings serious doctrinal and jurisprudential divergences, since the Brazilian legal system has no legal provision on the subject. Thus, the present work aims to analyze the possibility of applying the Principle of Insignificance by the Police Chief in the pre-procedural phase, considering that the police authority has a background of knowledge and all the means of communication are sufficient to apply this principle. Therefore, bibliographical research was used through the analysis of books, scientific articles, legislation and jurisprudence, in order to analyze the feasibility of applying the trifle in the administrative phase. In the course of the work, there will be several aspects that enable the application of the trifle as a way to relieve the Magistrates, the Public Ministry, also applying the principle of procedural economy and the discretion of the police authority. The conclusion drawn from this analysis is that the Police Chief can fail to draw up the arrest report in flagrante delicto, not initiate the police investigation and not indict the citizen being investigated based on the principle of trifle or insignificance, since, the State must not be concerned with insignificant facts that do not affect or cause minimal damage to the Law.
