Safety. City of Brussels, Montreal and Paris share experiences

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Street gangs exist in all the big cities today. And recently, Brussels is not any more spared by this phenomenon of crime. The problem of the city gangs is analyzed at an international level today. The police and the local powers of the City of Brussels work together with the Canadian City of Montreal for 3 years now.

Fight against city gangs

A first contact between the City of Brussels, the Belgian Forum for Urban Prevention and Safety (FBPSU) and the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) had already taken place in Montreal in July 2008. Afterwards, the FBPSU and the City decided to prolong and to concretize the partnership with Quebec. The City of Brussels welcomed 3 experts from Montreal last April. From 17 till 24 October 2009, the Belgian delegation will visit Montreal. The delegation will:

• meet the various people working in prevention and repression
• take a look on the field in Montreal
• present the approach of Belgium on city gangs
• start new actions

The recommendations of this project will be presented during a conference, organized within the Belgian presidency of the European Union at the end of 2010.

Prevention and incivilities in Paris

The City of Brussels also shares its experience with the City of Paris. The 'Observatoire Parisien de la Tranquillité Publique' is therefore going to visit Brussels during 2 days. The programme of this visit will be centred on prevention and the fight against incivilities in public cleansing. The City of Paris is particularly interested in the way Brussels manages:

• the policy of prevention and global safety
• the fight against incivilities, in particular as regards the administrative penalties and the procedure of mediation by the association Bravvo