Partners: Fund - IGA Sikies Municipality (Greece), Crime Concern (UK), Province of Rovigo (Italy), Agency for Sustainable Development – Brasov, Regional Inspectorate on Education - Brasov (Romania), Municipality Nepolomitse (Poland), Association of Local Authorities in Aragón (Spain)
Term of realization: 1.09.2009 - 28.12.2012
Activities:
SafeLand project addresses issues of crime prevention at local and regional level in the partner countries, focusing on three primary levels of prevention:
- Reduce the risk of committing a crime by taking measures for general prevention directed to all citizens, in particular measures for preventing school violence;
- Reducing the potential number of victims of crimes through physical measures to reduce opportunities for criminal acts and activities such as classes on personal safety at school, etc.;
- Reduce the subjective fear of crime through the development and adoption of effective strategies for crime prevention.

NEWS

IGA at an international forum on crime prevention 

At the end of the previous week a team of Fund IGA came back from a two-day international conference in Thessaloniki. Representatives of 6 countries took part in it – partners under the project “SafeLand”: Bulgaria, Greece, Great Britain, Poland, Romania, Spain and Italy. The conference completed a project which addresses the problems of crime prevention at a local and regional level in the partner-countries, focusing on the primary prevention: reducing the risk of committing a crime by taking measures for a general prevention, in particular, measures for preventing violence in schools; reducing the potential number of victims of crimes by measures for reducing the physical abilities to commit criminal acts; reducing the fear of crime by developing effective strategies for crime prevention.
Fund IGA presented the activity of the Centre for social rehabilitation and integration of children from risk groups in Plovdiv. IGA manages the Centre as a delegated state activity. The Strategy for crime prevention of the Municipality of Plovdiv, 2011-2015, which has been developed by experts from Fund IGA, was also presented.
The project is financed by the European Commission, PG Home.