Towards a Policy for Citizen Security
The project "Towards a Policy for Citizen Security" (Span. POLSEC) can be considered as a continuation of the project "Towards a Security Policy for Democracy" (Span. POLSEDE). It arises from the need to establish a dialogue between civil society and the State and is carried out through a participatory action-research process. This participatory initiative created intersectorial working groups which drafted 4 volumes of the same publication: Approaches to a Citizen Security Policy; Institutionalization of Democratic Security; Security and Justice Administration System; Human Rights, Criminal Investigation and Gender. The proposals and the consensus of the working groups are, above all, in the third volume. In this volume, recommendations are made to reform the country's justice system through the reform of its institutions. In addition to the meetings, surveys of victimization and the perception of insecurity were carried out, the Security Advisory Council (CAS) was created from Agreement 115-2004, and the foundations were laid for a proposed Framework Law for the National Security System.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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