Using multi-agency, multi-professional collaboration to reduce serious violence and organized crime

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-65
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Staniforth ◽  
Una Jennings ◽  
Jamie Henderson ◽  
Simon Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intelligence Sharing ◽  
Organized Crime Groups ◽  
The City

Serious violence and organized crime have been rising both nationally and in Sheffield, contributing significantly to increasing knife and gun crime, which results in threats to community safety and well-being. A multi-agency project with stakeholders across all levels of command and co- located operational staff was established to undertake collaborative activity that would protect the public by pursuing offenders as well as preparing for and preventing serious violence and organized crime: Fortify. Using a 4P approach, Fortify worked across professional and organizational boundaries to disrupt serious violence and organized crime. Relationships between partners have improved substantially through increased communication and understanding of the different roles, perspectives, and levers of each partner. A recent Home Office locality review applauded our partnership. Intelligence sharing has improved, leading to increased disruptive activity, including increased seizure of money, drugs, and firearms, as well as more arrests and safeguarding referrals. The number of mapped Organized Crime Groups (OCGs) operating across the city has reduced from 19 to 12. Processes and procedures have improved, reducing duplication and holding of information in silos. Community groups are more engaged, allowing us to address serious violence and organized crime in partnership. We propose to undertake action research with the involvement of all partners to provide more robust evaluation of our initial findings. We have found that collaboration between Police and Partners increases collective responsibility and facilitates success in tackling serious violence and organized crime.

The Challenges in Dealing with Organized Crime and its Consequences in Modern Societies in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia – the Balkan Peninsula

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Bashkim Selmani ◽  
Bekim Maksuti
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Organized Crime Groups ◽  
Further Development

The profound changes within the Albanian society, including Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, before and after they proclaimed independence (in exception of Albania), with the establishment of the parliamentary system resulted in mass spread social negative consequences such as crime, drugs, prostitution, child beggars on the street etc. As a result of these occurred circumstances emerged a substantial need for changes within the legal system in order to meet and achieve the European standards or behaviors and the need for adoption of many laws imported from abroad, but without actually reading the factual situation of the psycho-economic position of the citizens and the consequences of the peoples’ occupations without proper compensation, as a remedy for the victims of war or peace in these countries. The sad truth is that the perpetrators not only weren’t sanctioned, but these regions remained an untouched haven for further development of criminal activities, be it from the public state officials through property privatization or in the private field. The organized crime groups, almost in all cases, are perceived by the human mind as “Mafia” and it is a fact that this cannot be denied easily. The widely spread term “Mafia” is mostly known around the world to define criminal organizations.The Balkan Peninsula is highly involved in these illegal groups of organized crime whose practice of criminal activities is largely extended through the Balkan countries such as Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, etc. Many factors contributed to these strategic countries to be part of these types of activities. In general, some of the countries have been affected more specifically, but in all of the abovementioned countries organized crime has affected all areas of life, leaving a black mark in the history of these states.

scholarly journals Factors that determine the sustainability of the basic sanitation service in Manizales

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Castano-Isaza ◽  
María Arango-Ospina ◽  
Diana Cardenas-Villamizar
Keyword(s):  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Sanitation ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
The City

Sewage treatment is one of the great challenges in water management. In this regard, 80% of wastewater is discharged into water sources without any treatment, thus ignoring the fundamental right of access to water and sanitation and its implications for the well-being and development of populations. Colombia since the 50's began the strategy of improving water and sanitation. Seven decades of design and implementation of policies in favor of the expansion of coverage in aqueduct, sewerage and sanitation services, with significant advances for aqueduct and sewerage services and with great challenges facing the need to focus and optimize efforts to be more efficient and make the sanitation. The study and understanding of sustainable basic sanitation was carried out through the search for secondary information carried out in sectoral reports and research documents, where factors that positively or negatively affected the provision of the sanitation service were identified. On the other hand, the understanding of the social and political dynamics of the territory allows in the context of the city of Manizales to identify and analyze the perceptions from the three pillars of sustainability, natural environment, social environment and economic environment of two interest groups in the company Aguas de Manizales SA ESP, provider of the aqueduct and sewerage service in the city, through the application of a user survey and the carrying out of focus groups with institutions and community leaders. Lastly, solutions and strategies are proposed that eliminate causes or reduce the impacts that make it impossible to consolidate the public sanitation service or to maintain it over time.

Training and development model for municipal frontline staff

2021 ◽  
pp. 014473942199752
Author(s):  
Rochelle G Wessels
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Frontline Staff ◽  
The Public ◽  
Customer Care ◽  
The City

The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that public servants must deliver services to improve the general welfare of the citizens. The public servants therefore have a duty to the citizens to deliver effective and efficient public services that will be to the satisfaction of the citizens to improve their well-being. However, this is not the case since service delivery protests have become the norm, with citizens regularly protesting about the services received from the various municipalities. Citizens are not happy about the level of service delivery received and therefore take to the streets to render their unhappiness. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is no exception, as service delivery protests have also plagued the municipality and during 2016, the media referred to the protests as Tshwane burning. The municipal frontline staff are at the coalface of service delivery and are often the only public servants that the citizens come into contact with. The municipal frontline staff deliver services to the public on a daily basis and should possess the necessary knowledge, skills, behaviours, attitudes and competencies to deliver professional services. This article will describe what the Customer Care Consultants think should be included in the design of an essential model for training and development for Customer Care Consultants at the City of Tshwane, as they are at the forefront of service delivery. It does so by drawing on an extensive case study using a qualitative questionnaire toexplore the views and perceptions of the municipal frontline staff. The article seeks to add to the body of knowledge by critically analysing the views provided by the Customer Care Consultants on the content for a training and development modelfor Customer Care Consultants at the City of Tshwane. This study reports on research undertaken for the author’s doctoral research conducted during 2018 and culminates in a training and development model for municipal frontline staff.

scholarly journals URBANISASI DAN PENGEMBANGAN KOTA DI INDONESIA

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prijono Tjiptoherijanto
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth Rate ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Population Problem ◽  
City Development ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City ◽  
Robust Evidence

Urbanization is not simply the phenomenon of a population problem, but is also a political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena. Study of urbanization patterns is important due to abundance reports which point out that rapid expansion of the population growth rate, living in big cities has increased enormously. The problems associated with exaggerated growth may create a primary city, that in its excessive process will have negative and disadvantage impacts for the development and the well-being of such a city.The omnipresent growth of slums, the underprivileged areas in the center and the outskirts of a city has provided a robust evidence that the proper plans at the heart of this, is paramount importance to the city development with regard to its inhabitants. Effective solutions to urbanization problems and to establish a relevant city development are to utilize effeciency in people empowerment as well as the equitable distribution of the public welfare, not just cosmetic and artificiality of the city development plan.

scholarly journals EL DERECHO A LA CIUDAD CON PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO (THE RIGHT TO THE CITY WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Claudia Elena Robles Cardoso ◽  
Carlos Muñiz Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Resumen: Las ciudades como catalizadores de derechos humanos han asumido la tarea fundamental de proveer el bienestar esencial para los ciudadanos. La responsabilidad de garantizar el derecho a la ciudad se ha abordado sin tomar en cuenta las diferentes necesidades que cada grupo poblacional requiere, en específico se ha omitido la perspectiva de género como un elemento fundamental para las políticas públicas de las ciudades, haremos un breve recorrido por la forma tan distinta en que hombres y mujeres viven las ciudades, así como las grandes deudas que requiere asumir el derecho a la ciudad.Palabras clave: Derecho a la Ciudad, Perspectiva de Género, Empoderamiento, Mujer, Seguridad y Movilidad. Abstract: Cities as catalysts for human rights have assumed the fundamental task of providing essential well-being for citizens. The responsibility of guaranteeing the right to the city has been addressed without taking into account the different needs that each population group requires, specifically the gender perspective has been omitted as a fundamental element for the public policies of the cities, we will take a brief tour because of the very different way in which men and women live in cities, as well as the large debts required to assume the right to the city.Keywords: Right to the City, Gender Perspective, Empowerment, Women, Security and Mobility.

A Methodological Approach for Creating Urban Commons of Wellness in Public Open Spaces in the City of Chania

2022 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Sofia Mavroudi ◽  
Panagiotis Parthenios
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Open Spaces

To investigate the wellbeing factor within the urban context, the authors developed a methodological process for understanding and recreating the term “wellness” focusing on the public open spaces of the city. Using as case study the city of Chania, this research firstly proposes the assessment of four well-being indicators in specific areas of the city linking their effect on people's disposition and then uses the generated data for the redesign of public open spaces in terms of strengthening urban prosperity, with a comprehensive six-step methodology that combines participatory processes and methods based on GIS technologies. This chapter is structured into three main sections as follows: the first section elaborates on the research questions and justification of methods used, the second proceeds with the analysis of the proposed methodology while the third section highlights its overall assessment. Finally, some concluding remarks are expressed for further research.

scholarly journals Re.Structure: Finding the synergetic relationships between functioning urban ports, trapped landscapes, and public life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
David Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Public ◽  
Port Infrastructure ◽  
The City ◽  
Port Areas

<p>In many countries around the world, contemporary urban ports have a major economical, infrastructural, and dominant presence along strategic waterfront edges. In terms of public life, these industrial private entities disconnect themselves from their parent city due to the interaction between a number of factors, namely; topography, orientation, positioning, port typology, the safety and functionality of ports, urban planning, and the effects on the natural ecology. The changing nature of how a city utilizes their waterfront questions whether urban ports have a role within the heart of the city. The potential to restructure port areas and their surrounding spaces that have been effected by development leads to the creation of dynamic public life entities. With these large infrastructural entities, the areas surrounding the boundaries are compromised and are trapped in a confusion of development and derelict design. Trapped landscapes often have detrimental effects on natural environments. This negative impact can be seen in the urban fabric of the city, and in the public well-being and life of the occupants of those spaces.  This thesis investigates urban areas trapped by functioning port infrastructure, specifically the area known as the Quay Park Quarter, situated in Auckland, New Zealand. The Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL), directly north of the area, imposes a dominating, privatised and industrial statement to contribute to the nature of this trapped landscape. The Quay Park Quarter includes heritage sites, railway infrastructure, and ad-hoc developments, some of which were initially intended to rejuvenate the area.  This thesis aims to address the privatised issues surrounding the contemporary urban port by challenging the role and incorporation of public life as a means to restructure such areas. This thesis argues that active port areas can be reconfigured, restructured and reimagined in ways in which to utilize public life along active waterfront networks. This thesis will also argue that this utilization of public life can actively change the way in which trapped landscapes can be restructured for the future. By considering the ecological impact, the city’s growth and surrounding developed areas, positive changes can be made at multiple scales within the city context.  This thesis proposes that this can be investigated through observing three interrelated scales to discover city systems and functions, the intimate, neighbourhood and metropolitan. The intimate scale involves the interactions with one’s self in the environment that surrounds them, as well as the composition of all things to create public life. This creates a sense of locality for being in the environment. Because of the port’s impact on this urban area as well as its external and internal functions, the neighbourhood scale addresses the reconfiguration and restructuring of the port infrastructure that has impacted this trapped urban area. The metropolitan scale involves how the public life network fits within the context of the city, through the means of landscape infrastructural components. The collaboration of these three scales allows for an interchange between what the human can experience in addition to the systematic functionality of the city. This offers unique insight beyond the master planning of such urban areas to actively engage with life on the ground. The reconfiguration and restructuring aspects of these areas allow for a variety of resolutions to both actively engage with public life within industrial areas and facilitate the release of trapped landscapes back into the surrounding context of these areas.</p>

scholarly journals Avaliação do espaço público urbano: Passeio das Virtudes, Porto, Portugal

Terr Plural ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Cauê Martins Rios ◽  
Luiza Rabaça Loureiro Bruno Bispo ◽  
Fernando Manuel Brandão Alves ◽  
Carolina Aquino Amador ◽  
Luis Guilherme Aita Pippi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City

This paper aims to elaborate a diagnosis of the public space of Passeio das Virtudes, in Porto, Portugal. As a place of great importance, and agglomeration of people, it is neglected by the citizen. It was performed first a bibliographical revision, referring to the relation of the cities with their public spaces and the transformations of the same ones until nowadays. In addition, it was made a qualitative analysis structured in four dimensions: physical, functional, social, and historical-cultural. Thus, knowing the region and the needs of the uses of the space it was possible to highlight the positive aspects of Passeio das Virtudes environment. By seeking information and diagnoses that provide the city with an even more lively urban environment, of attraction to the public, which ensures well-being, safety, comfort, and accessibility to users, we are thus meeting the policies of revitalization and transformation of the place into a pole of culture and leisure.

The basic determinants of perceived increase in violent, sexual and benefit fraud crimes

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 180-188
Author(s):  
Shivam Fijwala ◽  
Marek Palasinski ◽  
Neil Shortland
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of

Purpose – Given that how crimes are perceived by the general public influences their sense of community safety, police priorities and offending behaviour, and in light of little, if any at all, attention being paid to the determinants of such perception, the purpose of this paper is to examine their predictive value. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 150 English participants with diverse backgrounds (78 males and 72 females – mean age: M=24.3; SD=5.44) completed surveys on their perceived increase in violent, sexual and benefit fraud crimes, taking into account theoretically and empirically underpinned factors, like age, income, number of days unemployed in the last three years, number of years spent in formal education and machiavellianism. Findings – The multiple regression results suggest that participants with less formal education and less income were more likely to see a rise in violent crime. They also suggest that participants with less formal education and longer history of recent unemployment were more likely to see a rise in sexual crime. It turned out, however, that the recent history of unemployment was not a significant predictor of the perceived rise in benefit fraud – only a high machiavellianism score was. Research limitations/implications – This quantitative research paints a complex picture that could be complemented by follow-on qualitative studies. Practical implications – The overarching message from this relatively modest study, therefore, which is part of a much larger and more complex ongoing research project, is to inform the public on crime in approachable and mass data-driven ways rather than leaving this to sensation-driven and selective scenario-focused media. Social implications – Increasing people's sense of community safety is likely to improve their general well-being, community cohesion and trust in others without necessarily inclining them to take personal risks and falling victim to crime due to ignorance and gullibility. This, in turn, might help guide crime prevention strategies and contribute to the actual reduction in crime levels and safer communities. Originality/value – Not only does this article offer insight into people's perception of different crimes, addressing an important and neglected research deficit, but is also cautiously proposes the need for more professional education of the public about crime figures.

scholarly journals Re.Structure: Finding the synergetic relationships between functioning urban ports, trapped landscapes, and public life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
David Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Public ◽  
Port Infrastructure ◽  
The City ◽  
Port Areas

<p>In many countries around the world, contemporary urban ports have a major economical, infrastructural, and dominant presence along strategic waterfront edges. In terms of public life, these industrial private entities disconnect themselves from their parent city due to the interaction between a number of factors, namely; topography, orientation, positioning, port typology, the safety and functionality of ports, urban planning, and the effects on the natural ecology. The changing nature of how a city utilizes their waterfront questions whether urban ports have a role within the heart of the city. The potential to restructure port areas and their surrounding spaces that have been effected by development leads to the creation of dynamic public life entities. With these large infrastructural entities, the areas surrounding the boundaries are compromised and are trapped in a confusion of development and derelict design. Trapped landscapes often have detrimental effects on natural environments. This negative impact can be seen in the urban fabric of the city, and in the public well-being and life of the occupants of those spaces.  This thesis investigates urban areas trapped by functioning port infrastructure, specifically the area known as the Quay Park Quarter, situated in Auckland, New Zealand. The Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL), directly north of the area, imposes a dominating, privatised and industrial statement to contribute to the nature of this trapped landscape. The Quay Park Quarter includes heritage sites, railway infrastructure, and ad-hoc developments, some of which were initially intended to rejuvenate the area.  This thesis aims to address the privatised issues surrounding the contemporary urban port by challenging the role and incorporation of public life as a means to restructure such areas. This thesis argues that active port areas can be reconfigured, restructured and reimagined in ways in which to utilize public life along active waterfront networks. This thesis will also argue that this utilization of public life can actively change the way in which trapped landscapes can be restructured for the future. By considering the ecological impact, the city’s growth and surrounding developed areas, positive changes can be made at multiple scales within the city context.  This thesis proposes that this can be investigated through observing three interrelated scales to discover city systems and functions, the intimate, neighbourhood and metropolitan. The intimate scale involves the interactions with one’s self in the environment that surrounds them, as well as the composition of all things to create public life. This creates a sense of locality for being in the environment. Because of the port’s impact on this urban area as well as its external and internal functions, the neighbourhood scale addresses the reconfiguration and restructuring of the port infrastructure that has impacted this trapped urban area. The metropolitan scale involves how the public life network fits within the context of the city, through the means of landscape infrastructural components. The collaboration of these three scales allows for an interchange between what the human can experience in addition to the systematic functionality of the city. This offers unique insight beyond the master planning of such urban areas to actively engage with life on the ground. The reconfiguration and restructuring aspects of these areas allow for a variety of resolutions to both actively engage with public life within industrial areas and facilitate the release of trapped landscapes back into the surrounding context of these areas.</p>

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