1. Jessica Hoste
Municipal Security

2. New prevention and security functions in the public area
Community Wardens

3. Content of presentation
Evolution prevention and safety functions Belgium
Workshop prevention and safety functions Europe

4. Evolution prevention and safety functions Belgium
Context development security and prevention functions in the public area
Consequences developments
Strategy: community wardens
Structural framework
Conclusion

5. Proliferation of new prevention and safety functions in the public area
’90: security central as a social theme:
Emphasis on increasing the social cohesion and the security feeling
Prevention as an instrument gains significance
Responsibility tackling insecurity with the local administrations

6. Development local security policy
Each municipality/city: own phenomena – own priorities
= own way to fill in definition security + method
identification of 211 non-police public prevention and safety functions at the local level

7. Common characteristic
Core task:
functional surveillance public domain  sensitizing visitors
reduction feelings of insecurity

8. Filling-in functions - The local government determines all
Filling-in of the tasks of the function
name function
= tasks ≠ names
≠ tasks = names
uniform
employment conditions

9. Consequence Confusion

10. Consequence Lack of clarity
Lack of clarity filling-in of the tasks and framework public prevention and safety functions:
Possible overlap tasks regulated functions, e.g. private security, police
Precarious statute – bottom of the food chain

11. Strategy: streamline Community Wardens

12. Community Wardens Aim Law
Uniformity - coherence - clarity
1 name
1 uniform
Definition range of duties - competences
Explicit embedding local administration
More visibility and clarity for population
Clear distinction with tasks and competences police and private security
Definition cooperation with police and private security

13. Community Wardens Aim Law
Professionalization
Employment conditions
Practice conditions
Training

14. Embedding local administration
Recruitment by local administration  insertion organization chart municipality  city
Local administration responsible for coordination and control missions
Cooperation police: written agreement
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT COMPETENCE LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

15. Community Wardens Conclusion
Evolution proliferation  streamlined entity with well-founded view:
tasks
competences = CRITERIA
recruitment and framework DEPLOYMENT CW
Local government still determines approach concerning security allows custom-made policy in compliance with criteria

16. Community Wardens Conclusion
 Recognition preventive surveillance functions at local level as full partner in local security policy

17. Workshop prevention and safety functions Europe
Different approaches on filling-in local prevention and safety functions in Europe:
Emphasis functions: balancing between social prevention and repression
Different tasks
Different statues: professional - volunteer
Uniform - no uniform

18. Panel of experts and their best practices
Republic of Lithuania: Police Supporters
The Netherlands: Special Investigative Officers (BOA’s)
Denmark: Night Owls
Belgium: Community Wardens

19. Debate (or battle) experts
Prevention and safety workers:
Is their impact on social cohesion real?
Are they the helpers of police?
Is their competition with the private security?
Volunteer or professional?