Municipal Public Policy for Public Safety
The Municipal Public Policy for Public Safety was developed and implemented with the objective of giving an effective and democratic response to the high levels of violence and criminality in the Town of Santa Maria Cotzumalguapa, which was the most dangerous town of the Department of Escuintla and the second most dangerous town of the country. It was formulated by the Municipality together with a group of citizens, the Municipal Development Council (Span. COMUDE), and the commissions of education, health and environment. This proposal also included an Annual Action Plan (2006-2007), which defined the programs that were carried out to achieve each goal (i.e. crime prevention, police accompaniment and training, implementation of round tables, mapping of high risk areas, etc.) The policy represents, for the country, a new model of democratic municipal security, and proposes 8 postulates based on the rule of law, security and citizen participation: 1) Security to strengthen democracy, 2) the protection of human rights, (3) the eradication of poverty, (4) the protection of the environment, (5) access to education, (6) sustainable economic development, (7) local decentralization, and (8) access to health.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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