The environment complexity in the management of citizen security by Covid-19

Abstract

This essay seeks to provide recommendations for effectiveness and efficiency in police institutions, to make optimal use of available resources and to best adapt them to the specific realities faced in the social field where these organizations carry out their activities, under the current condition of Social Isolation, as a governance action taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The different environment situations to be faced by citizen security organizations, determine the complexity of this, and the response mechanisms of these institutions constitute management models to the different varieties to be assumed and detailed in this work. The decree issued by the Venezuelan government on March 13, 2020, imposing Social Isolation because of the COVID-19 pandemic declared by the World Health Organization, created the need to access the crime rate figures of the four weeks prior to the declaration of social isolation, and link them to the first month of social quarantine. With this data focused on the Miranda State and provided by the Coordinating Secretary of Security and Citizen Peace of this entity in relation to the crimes of: Homicide, Robbery and theft, comparisons were made between these two periods. This analysis reflects a 79% decrease in the reported crime incidence in the first month of social isolation compared to the previous month, and focused on these findings, recommendations and aspects of interest are given, to be monitored from the scientific, technological and innovation capacities of citizen security agencies.