App Patrullaje Inteligente
The App Patrullaje Inteligente is a smartphone app developed as a supporting tool for monitoring crime and security concerns within the framework of "Ven911", the recent citizen security strategy of the Venezuelan government. In January 2014, the app was launched as a tool for citizen participation with the purpose of strengthening the smart patrolling (lit. Patrullaje Inteligente) activities of police units in the "quadrants of peace". At first, the strategy was put in practice only within five districts in Caracas. Over the years the government has widened the scope of the activities of the security corps to other areas of the country as well, prioritizing geographical regions according to their population density, topography and crime incidence, in 2019 the website ven911.gob.ve states that there are 2119 quadrants of peace nationwide. Each quadrant has a unit for smart patrolling (UPIs) that consists of eight officials, two motorcycles and a police car. In order to use the app, citizens must download it to a phone with active GPS connection, through the "search" function they can find UPIs in their areas, through the "SOS" function they can call one of them for immediate assistance or make a complaint. These complaints can include any crime related to burglary, drug trafficking, use of firearms, kidnapping, smuggling, gender violence and any other kind of issue affecting their communities. However, some articles in national as well as international press have reported that the successful implementation of this participatory mechanism would have to rely heavily on citizens trusting the efficiency of the citizen 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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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