National Council of Public Security
The National Council of Public Security is a collegiate body, advisory and deliberative in character, which integrates the basic structure of the Ministry of Justice. Its main objective is to formulate and monitor the implementation of the national policy of public security and violence and crime prevention, and act in its coordination and democratic control. The council shall: formulate guidelines and implement the National Policy of Public Security; stimulate institutional modernization toward the development and promotion of inter-sectorial public security policies; develop studies and actions to increase efficiency in the implementation of the National Policy of Public Security; propose guidelines for the National Policy of Public Security?s actions and monitor the allocation and use of its resources; systematically coordinate and support the state, Federal District and municipal councils in order to formulate basic common guidelines and potentialize the exercise of their statutory duties and regulations; propose the convening and assist in the coordination of national public security conferences and other citizen participation processes, and monitor the implementation of their deliberations; study, analyze and suggest changes in relevant legislation; and promote the integration between federal, state, municipal and Federal District public safety agencies. In 2016, the council had 30 members, 9 of which belong to the federal, state, Federal District and municipal governments, and the control or direction of police forces; 9 were from entities representative of worker?s bodies and organizations in the field of public security; and 12 representatives of entities and civil society organizations related to security policies.
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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