The article focuses on security preparations for the sporting mega events to be held in Brazil in the coming years, giving special emphasis to the city of Rio de Janeiro, and to some procedures related to technological modernization. Thus, the official Brazilian strategic planning for the 2014 World Cup is taken as the privileged object of analysis, as well as the construction of a building at downtown, the Integrated Command and Control Centre, presented as the main pillar of mega event's security policies. From this analysis, will be drawn some considerations upon the desired and vaunted institutional integration, which would be provided by the building in question, and would be the main legacy in public safety to be left by mega events.
legacy; public security; surveillance; technology
