Neighborhood Safety Forums
The Neighborhood Safety Forums constitute a case of citizen participation in the policy area of security, promoted by the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires since 1998 with the objective of monitoring police management and collaborating with citizens in crime prevention activities. The forums pursue deliberation techniques in order to allow for the joint elaboration of proposals, which are then brought to the Security Police and to the Police Delegates of Investigation and Security. Community representatives and sectorial organizations at the local level, and religious institutions participate. Among the programs implemented by these Forums are: the Program for Monitoring and Evaluation of Response, Quality and Attitude of the police service (CERCA Program) and the Program of Multiple Responses (PRM).
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
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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