Citizen Security Committees
The Citizen Security Committees, formerly called the Neighborhood Citizen Security Boards, are multisectorial committees for the coordination, implementation and evaluation of local / communal security policies, with the participation and representation of citizen and / or peasant organizations as well as private security guilds at the regional, provincial and district levels. They are comprised of representatives of municipal authorities and local self-organized communities. They have broad powers to coordinate comprehensive activities, determine priorities and mechanisms to combat crime, and to accompany the implementation of these policies, as well as the possibility of evaluating police performance at the local level, from a preventive perspective and for the protection of rights.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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