First step: some people check a grocery store and find that there is profiteering. Second step: they file a complaint with the Institute for the Defense of People in the Access to Goods and Services (Indepabis), but the agency does not respond to the claim. Third step: the neighbors may seek support from the National Police, the National Guard or the Bolivarian militia to punish the alleged profiteer "directly."

This mechanism is provided for in the draft Organic Law on Social Comptrollership, which is currently discussed by the Committee on Citizen Participation, National Assembly.

Article 16 of the draft law provides: "in the event that the administrative body legally empowered to impose the sanctions resulting from Social Comptrollership actions fails to act, refrains from action, or in case of contumacy (...) the People's Power may act directly, with the support of the National Police, the National Guard or the Bolivarian militias, to enforce its decisions."