UDINE – The Municipality of Udine has decided to extend the period for submitting an application for participation in the project Participatory Security. The new deadline to apply as observers has moved to May 31, 2024.
All the towns and all interested citizens, by that date, will be able to propose themselves as neighborhood representatives by responding to the public notice announced by the local police, satisfying some requirements. The next step will be an interview with the commission composed of the Local Police Commander and a responsible officer responsible for neighborhood matters. The selected citizens will participate in a training course through which they will acquire the skills needed to recognize the situations to be monitored, and only subsequently will they be able to be actively involved in the observation activity.
Among the contact persons identified, the Local Police will choose the so-called Coordinators, who will act as a liaison between the contact persons and the Local Police. The coordinators will receive reports from individual volunteers in the area and, after evaluating them, will forward them to the Local Police.
Participatory safety, the tasks of the representatives
As previously communicated, volunteers will be able to carry out activities of mere observation with respect to facts and circumstances that happen in their neighborhood of reference, with the aim of reporting them to the institutions and the police. These are not emergency reports: for those the single number 112 remains valid. Furthermore, there is no possibility of intervening directly in relation to an event that one happens to witness. Once the contact person has observed a certain fact, he can report it to the coordinator, who will forward the report to the police.
The warnings from citizens will exclusively concern: suspected episodes of drug dealing, people in a state of confusion and evident difficulty, significant situations of danger and disturbance to public peace, acts of vandalism, presence of dangerous obstacles on communication routes, presence or possible suspected escape of means of transport or clearly suspicious people, suspected bullying, undue use of public spaces, presence in a public place of cars, motorbikes or bicycles suspected of being stolen. As regards the presence of people in difficulty or without a fixed abode, the Social Services of the Municipality will also be involved.
Penultimate information meeting on safety
At the same time as the operational phase of the project, the information meetings organized in the neighborhoods also continue. The calendar has now reached its penultimate date and saw good public participation during each evening. These meetings open to citizens are an opportunity to inform and train the local population on crucial issues for their daily safety.
Thursday 2 May, at 8.30 pm, in the “Londero” Aula Magna of the “Paolo Naliato” University of the Third Age in via Piemonte we will talk again about fraud prevention, but this time from a strictly psychological point of view. The title of the meeting, open to all citizens, is “Victim? No thank you!” and, thanks to the interventions of some psychologists specialized in the prevention of scams, the topic of scams will be explored in greater depth, in particular those that target the elderly and the most fragile individuals.
The last in-depth meeting on the topic of security is scheduled for Tuesday 7 May, at 8.30 pm, in the teaching room of the Local Police Headquarters. The topic addressed will be the network, the risks connected to it and the protection of personal data.
At the end of the calendar of training events, the Municipality has also organized an evening of entertainment: on Wednesday 15 May at 8.45 pm, at the Zanon Auditorium, the Trigeminus will perform in the comedy show “I truffATTORI”, offering a fun opportunity to safety issue.
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