This is a plan implemented by the Colombian National Police starting in 2010 that included an extensive training program for more than 9,000 police officers to improve interpersonal skills and apply new patrolling protocols.
The plan divided each city into small geographic areas (quadrants), assigned six policemen to each, established new policing and patrolling protocols that involved greater contact with the community, and held the policemen responsible for whatever happened in their quadrant in terms of security incidents.
Each police station was equipped with a Sectional Strategic Police Information Center (CIEPS, for its acronym in Spanish), which produced weekly geo-coded information on criminal activity in all quadrants of the police station.
At the management level, the plan decentralized strategic decisions by empowering quadrant patrols to diagnose the most urgent problems, plan the necessary interventions, and monitor the evolution of criminal activity at the quadrant level.