The Audit Commission and the ills of local community safety: an accurate diagnosis?

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Daniel Gilling
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Meng ◽  
Bandhan Dutta Ayon ◽  
Nirjala Koirala ◽  
Kathleen M. Baker

Winter snowfall, particularly lake-contributed snowfall, has a significant impact on the society and environment in the Great Lakes regions including transportation, tourism, agriculture, and ecosystem. Understanding the inter-annual variability of snowfall will provide sound basis for local community safety management and reduce its environmental impacts on agriculture and ecosystems. This study attempts to understand the trend and inter-annual variability in snowfall in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan (LPM) using statistical analysis based on snowfall measurements from eight weather stations. Our study demonstrates that snowfall has significantly increased from 1932 to 2015. Correlation analysis suggests that regional average air temperatures have a strong negative relationship with snowfall in the LPM. On average, approximately 27% of inter-annual variability in snowfall can be explained by regional average air temperatures. ENSO events are also negatively related to snowfall in the LPM and can explain ~8% of inter-annual variability. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) does not have strong influence on snowfall. Composite analysis demonstrates that on an annual basis, more snowfall occurs during the years with higher maximum ice cover (MIC) than during the years with lower MIC in Lake Michigan. Higher MIC is often associated with lower air temperatures which are negatively related to snowfall. This study could provide insight on future snow related climate model improvement and weather forecasting.


2021 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 62-80
Author(s):  
Krystyna Leśniak-Moczuk ◽  
Arkadiusz Leśniak-Moczuk

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Morriss ◽  
Susan Mann ◽  
Tess Byrnes

The Safe Dreaming Trail to School initiative was an injury prevention project, that used the school as the setting, and students as agents for change, in a cross cultural, collaborative approach to addressing community safety hazards. Students developed skills in identifying and reporting safety hazards in their school and local community, with opportunities to learn from indigenous safe community practices through Dreaming Stories. This learning process was captured by an original piece of Aboriginal art created by a local Aboriginal artist and included enthusiastic assistance from students. The core components of the project involved: fostering collaborative links between health, education, local service providers and community members; providing information on community safety and indigenous culture; developing a process for positive action on community safety hazards; and encouraging increased understanding and respect for different cultures using art and Dreaming Stories as the medium.


2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Prior

This article examines the relationship between the characterisation of and response to anti-social behaviour issues in areas of high ethnic diversity and emerging ‘post-multicultural’ policies of integration, cohesion and citizenship. It draws on a small study of the views and perceptions of members of local community safety and anti-social behaviour teams in three areas of England with very ethnically diverse populations. The analysis distinguishes between responses to ASB issues within ‘settled’ minority communities, among young people from those communities and within the ‘new’ immigrant communities. While these responses vary, the article argues that each can be seen as supporting national policy goals of community cohesion and responsible citizenship based on the assertion of ‘shared values’.


2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (31) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Marcin Kaduszkiewicz

Threats to public order compromise the personal security of the individual, forcing him to take action to improve it, and thus to guarantee it to the closest people. The right to ensure the security of the individual, society is one of the duties of a state whose omission can be considered a violation of human rights. By implementing this obligation, a threat monitoring system was created in Poland – the National Safety Threat Map. It is a tool used by the Police which in 2016 was initially piloted, then already throughout the country introduced this mechanism to monitor and counteract local threats, affecting the safety of residents. This tool uses the Internet as a source of information about threats from citizens. The instruction was issued for both users – citizens, as well as for policemen of users and local administrators, and instructions for proper and reliable implementation. They impose on the Police officers’ specific tasks in the system for the implementation of applications. The work is an attempt to answer the question: What tool is KMZB in the system of monitoring by the state of public security and order? National Map of Security Threats (KMZB) – functions of the National Map of Security Threats in shaping local community safety, constitutes an element of the process of managing the public safety, as well as inspiring the local community in this respect. The Police as the formation serving the society and opened for its needs implemented the additional channel of the information exchange about the most troublesome threats defined on the local level.


10.4335/31 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-70
Author(s):  
Franc Virtič ◽  
Vinko Gorenak

In its introduction, the paper defines the meanings of the words 'safety' and 'police'. Then it deals with different police organisations, their organisational structure and different police models of operation with the emphasis on studying the latest approach to the police work called community policing that is being introduced also in the Slovene police lately. Since the central topic here is local community safety, the paper deals with the community at which police work must be targeted. Then follows a study and analysis overview regarding the population's readiness to co-operate with the police. The empirical part of the paper presents an opinion survey among the Podravje Region population to find out to what extent people trust the police, how they are satisfied with the police work, what is the discrepancy between estimation and the expectations the Podravje population has for police officers, and how safe they feel. The survey shows the following: the Podravje population feels safe, people trust the police and they are ready to co-operate in solving safety problems. It has been ascertained that police officers fulfil people's expectations, because in dealing with people, the police were better than expected. KEY WORDS: • safety • police • public • local community • joint creation of safety


2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Alice Haddad

How do undemocratic civic organizations become compatible with democratic civil society? How do local organizations merge older patriarchal, hierarchical values and practices with newer more egalitarian, democratic ones? This article tells the story of how volunteer fire departments have done this in Japan. Their transformation from centralized war instruments of an authoritarian regime to local community safety organizations of a full-fledged democracy did not happen overnight. A slow process of demographic and value changes helped the organizations adjust to more democratic social values and practices. The way in which these organizations have made the transition offers important lessons for emerging democracies around the world.


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