Community Police Program
"The Community Police Program? was carried out in Villa Nueva during the period from 1998-2001, within the framework of the ?Citizen Security in Central America? project. Its objective was to promote community orientation of the police, giving a problem-solving approach through the inclusion of citizenship. The project began with an investigation into the main characteristics of the area, its crime rates, and public opinion on security. Next, the Municipal Security Council was created, made up of representatives of civil society and organizations involved in the project, who met to agree on the necessary measures for the prevention and control of crime. These measures were then carried out by the Executive Committee, in coordination with the National Civil Police, prosecutors, judges and lawyers.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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