Stenio Santos Sousa
Federal Police Commissioner, Academic Lecturer, Researcher, and Doctoral Candidate in Legal Sciences, specializing in cyber criminal investigation, digital evidence, criminal policy, and the network society.
Stenio Santos Sousa
Cybercrime · Law · Research
Role: Federal Police Commissioner since 2003
Research: Network society & supranational cyber criminal policy
Education: PhD Candidate in Legal Sciences — University of Minho
Trajectory & Institutional Purpose
Stenio Santos Sousa has served as a Federal Police Commissioner since 2003, with a career dedicated to criminal investigation, public security, and countering cybercrime and offenses perpetrated across digital environments.
His professional trajectory combines extensive operational and strategic experience in cyber criminal investigation, digital evidence preservation, protection of fundamental rights, human rights compliance, and criminal policy, having served in leadership, coordination, and technical advisory capacities across specialized units of the Federal Police of Brazil.
In academia, he is a Doctoral Candidate in Legal Sciences at the University of Minho, Portugal, conducting doctoral research on the legal-criminal framework of the network society, supranational cyber criminal policy, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, and the penal challenges arising from global digital transformation.
Cyber criminal investigation is not merely a technical challenge: it is also a fundamental legal, institutional, and criminal policy issue of the network society.
As a lecturer, distance education tutor, academic coordinator, and researcher, he actively contributes to the specialized training of law enforcement and judiciary personnel, producing applied knowledge in Police Sciences, Criminal Law, cybercrime prosecution, and the legal governance of emerging technologies.
His institutional trajectory also encompasses scientific and technical editorial leadership, including roles at the Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences (RBCP), the National Police Academy Publishing House (ANP Editora), and various academic research projects on contemporary public security.
The Stenio International Hub serves as an integrated platform connecting research, university teaching, doctrine, technical benchmarks, and editorial initiatives—upholding rigorous academic standards, institutional sobriety, and practical orientation toward the complex challenges of international law enforcement and criminal justice.
Credentials & Core Pillars
Legal Education & Police Sciences
Doctoral Research OngoingUniversity of Minho · ISCPSI · University of Brasília
Doctoral Candidate in Legal Sciences at the University of Minho and Master in Police Sciences — Criminology and Criminal Investigation from ISCPSI, formally recognized as a Master of Laws (LL.M.) by the University of Brasília.
Cyber Criminal Investigation
Since 2003Federal Police of Brazil
Two decades of institutional leadership in cybercrime investigations, digital forensics, chain of custody, fundamental rights safeguards, and public security responses to complex transnational threats.
Research, Teaching & Publications
Academic OutputHigher Police School · ANP Publishing · RBCP
Academic lecturer, e-learning tutor, research supervisor, former Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences, and member of specialized scientific editorial boards.
For academic inquiries, institutional cooperation, lectures, editorial partnerships, or technical advisory on cyber criminal investigation, digital evidence, and criminal policy:
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