Role of the Police, Africites, South African Report
Workshop on the Role of the Police in Urban Governance, Nairobi Kenya, 14-15 October 2003
Nairobi City Council is developing two parallel strategies to address crime and insecurity. An urban safety strategy will form part of its overall planning activities, with initiatives to improve by-law enforcement, urban planning/design, and social development. The Kenya National Police are undertaking major reforms to their mission and organization, and intend to develop their own crime prevention strategy that will focus particularly on crime in Nairobi. A key part of this strategy is to set up a decentralized Metropolitan Police force that will be autonomous, yet still in synch with local government. The Workshop was not designed to impose a specific model on Nairobi City Council or the Kenyan Police, but to give examples of different practices and police reforms that have been undertaken in other countries within a framework of good urban governance and local partnerships. It was attended by high-ranking police from the Kenya and Uganda National Police, the Mayors of Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar es Salaam, and representatives from the Safer Cities Programmes in Dar es Salaam, and eThekwini Municipality (Durban, South Africa) among others.
Africities Summit: Thematic Session on Urban Safety and Security, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 2-6th December 2003.
UN HABITAT organized this thematic session on Urban Safety and Security during the 2003 Africities Summit. Copies of the Recommendations of the session, and the Mayors’ Declaration on Community Safety are attached. Further information on this session can be found on the UN HABITAT website: www.unhabitat.org/africities/
South African Crime Prevention Report 2003, Cape Town 2-3rd December 2003.
This Conference was organized by the Alliance for Crime Prevention, a recently formed network of nine organizations and institutions in South Africa, promoting social crime prevention in government and civil society. (For more information contact Cheryl Frank cheryl@ct.osf.org.za )
Its purpose was to provide a critical status report of crime prevention in South Africa, assess the challenges and gaps for government and civil society, and make recommendations to government and civil society for strengthening crime prevention in the country. A further report on the conference will be included in a later edition of the International Observer.
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