The Police Commissioner of Matera Emma Ivagnes addressed the children present this morning to underline the importance of the initiative, promoted by the State Police in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Merit, which carries out work to raise awareness and prevent risks and dangers of the Internet for minors. “This and other legality education initiatives” said the Commissioner “they are designed to encourage the meeting and discussion of qualified State Police operators with a large number of students – today there are around 200 students participating in the initiative – to discuss together topics of great interest and relevance for young people , such as the problems linked to the use of the Internet, looking at them with a particular approach, that of those who have the task of enforcing the law and guaranteeing the safety of the community and individuals. In short, it is essential to work together, the State Police and the school world, to promote the culture of prevention and implement the growth of civil and democratic society.”
The iconic truck symbol of “Una vita da social” left this year from Sanremo, where it stopped for the 74th edition of the Italian Song Festival, and then continued throughout the country, where it has already touched many Italian cities. The most important and impressive itinerant educational campaign of the Postal Police, developed as part of the “Connected Generations” project and created with the support of Google, therefore talks about online safety, social networks and cyberbullying and this year is also enriched with insights on traffic education and combating all forms of discrimination. In addition to the operators of the Postal Police, in fact, there will be personnel from the Observatory for Security against Discriminatory Acts of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police, together with personnel from the Traffic Police.
A Social Life over the years has garnered great consensus: Postal Police operators have met over 3 million students, both in the streets and in schools, 247,000 parents, 142,000 teachers for a total of 21,000 schools, over 600 cities reached in the area and two Twitter and Facebook pages with 135,000 likes and 12 million monthly users on online security topics. Once again the State Police takes the field alongside the Ministry of Education and Merit for a great objective: to ensure that the rampant phenomenon of cyberbullying and all the various forms of abuse connected to a distorted use of technologies does not cause more victims.
