Request for Info

Community Safety Officers

ICPC is currently preparing a comparative analysis of community safety officers in countries such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. The report will focus on the role(s) of Community Safety Officers, highlighting the different ways in which they contribute to crime prevention, and noting the types of training and support that may be available to assist them in this area.  The report will also include inspiring, promising and good practices in this field.

We welcome any contributions that our readers may have on this new and exciting profession as it continues to develop in many countries worldwide.  Your submissions could include publications and/or reports, job descriptions, tools and links to training institutes or accredited programs.

If you would like to submit information, or request additional information on this thematic issue, please contact us at: cipc@crime-prevention-intl.org

Evaluation

In November 2001, the ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec adopted a Departmental Crime Prevention Policy entitled Making Our Communities Safer For Everyone. This policy sets out the main guidelines and strategies for strengthening and promoting the development of crime prevention within a more effective framework.  The policy emphasizes the following: prevention is an essential tool and needs a diversified intervention strategy, it requires an integrated approach, and municipalities must take the leadership role in local strategies in partnership with local actors. It is currently being implemented in five sites.

In 2004, the Quebec Government requested the technical support of ICPC in evaluating the implementation of its crime prevention policy. For several years now, ICPC has been analyzing tools for integrated prevention strategies and local safety evaluations. This led to the preparation of two reports, the most recent one dealing with the application to prevention of evaluation methods designed for Comprehensive Community Initiatives.

We would like to encourage and invite our readers to keep us up-to-date on the work you may be doing in the area of evaluation. This will not only help us to expand our current collection of tools aimed at those working in the field, but also help to facilitate exchange and foster discussions on evaluation which go beyond this project. Your submissions could include evaluation guides, mainly dealing with the evaluation process, evaluation training (both content and structure) publications, and also measurement tools (questionnaires, frameworks, charts, etc.).

Evaluation is an important research area for ICPC and a wide array of activities can be undertaken in this field which makes your contributions very valuable.

Olivier Barchechat,
Research Analyst, ICPC
c/o: cipc@crime-prevention-intl.org

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