Bogotá Community Police
The Bogotá Community Police was created in 1998 by the National Police within the police department in charge of the city of Bogotá, in order to provide citizens with a preventive approach to address security problems in Bogotá, based on teamwork between the police, the community and other social, public and private organizations. The role of citizens was mainly focused on providing their perceptions and opinions in identifying the needs that could be covered by the police, as well as in the participation in the Local Security Fronts created to be a link between the community and the police and to support the reaction between neighbors in situations of suspicion or threat to public safety.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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