Social Crime Prevention Committees
The Social Crime Prevention Committees were formally introduced into the structure of the National Police Department in 2007, through the presidential decree 110-2007. These committees are designed as a body of citizen participation within the ?Proactive and Communitarian Police Model? that has been deployed in the country, which seeks to encourage community involvement in the work of the police at a local level. Under the direction of the National Police, each municipal police department must form a Committee to which citizens are periodically invited participate in the definition of the most pressing security and law-infringement matters in their communities. The priorities and plans for the local police department must be defined based on the Committee?s contributions.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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