Continue the mission of the State Police through the dissemination of the principles of legality for the affirmation of the “Culture of Prevention”. Yet another opportunity for meeting and sharing between the Ragusa Police Headquarters and the students of the province. “Protection of legality. Knowing and sharing the “Culture of Prevention”, this is the theme discussed this morning at the Garibaldi theater in Modica with students from Modica schools. The event is the fifth of a cycle of meetings that took place at some theaters in the province and was an important synthesis and analysis of the positive objectives achieved during previous meetings held with school groups; we will start again soon with a new cycle of meetings to also reach students from the other centers in the Rragusa area.
The students of the Liceo Musicale e Choreutico “G. Verga” of Modica on this occasion too, they marked the beginning and end of the event with the performance of well-known musical pieces and the national anthem.
The commissioner of the province of Ragusa Dr. Vincenzo Trombadore in greeting the civil, military and religious authorities and the public present, he reiterated the importance of promoting the “Culture of Prevention” among young people. The involvement and sharing of the new generations on security issues can truly make a substantial contribution to that “participatory policing” of which all citizens are an integral and active part. Be all police in the exclusive interest of the community. Being all together as a “team”, institutions and citizens. In this context, the commissioner then thanked the mayors who attended “for their sensitivity and institutional closeness in cultural, social and sporting initiatives and in legality projects, with the provision of sports facilities and theaters for the construction of preventive police activities”. Security added “… it is culture, with social sporting integration and with the collection of the main values to be projected, by each institution, in the shared effectiveness, in the shared effectiveness of social utility”.
They attended for an institutional greeting on prefect of the province of Ragusa Giuseppe Ranieri which underlined the high positive value on the “prevention” front of the events organized by the Commissioner with the school groups of the province. The prefect also illustrated the commitment of the Prefecture and the other competent institutions and in particular of the Provincial School Office, to support schools against school dropout.
Also the mayor of Modica Maria Monisteri Caschetto thanked the commissioner in the dual role of mayor and President of the “Fondazione Teatro Garibaldi” for the extraordinary effectiveness of the events organized with school groups also at the theatres, as moments of great cultural and pedagogical growth as they are crucial in making students perceive the presence and proximity of institutions. The councilors for Education Catia Pasta and for Sport Simone Digrandi representing the Mayor of Ragusa and the Mayor of Vittoria Giuseppe Aiello in the context of a brief conversational interlude with the presenter, they applauded the “proximity” initiatives addressed by the Ragusa Police Headquarters to the students of the province and each underlined, for their own area, the importance of the positive effects that these initiatives have generated on the prevention and education plan for children.
Present at the event representatives of the Carabinieri, the Financial Police, the Port Authority of Pozzallo, the Director of the Provincial School Office of Ragusa Viviana Assenza who expressed his deep appreciation for the initiatives and meetings organized by the Ragusa Police Headquarters in the schools and theaters of the province, the extraordinary commissioner of the ASP of Ragusa Giuseppe Drago who wanted to underline the pedagogical importance of these initiatives and the ASP’s commitment to tackling degenerative social phenomena such as bullying. In this regard, he highlighted that the ASP of Ragusa is the only company in the South to have an active Anti-Bullying Clinic.
An evocative video illustrated the various structures of the State Police and the specialized skills of the women and men who compose it but also a synthesis, in music and images, of the numerous local events organized by the Ragusa Police Headquarters in the province.
Then followed a debate, moderated by journalist Sonia Iacono, in which the Chief Commissioner Rosalba Capaccio Deputy Director of the Flying Squad and Gianluca Gennaro Chief of Staff of the Ragusa Police Headquarters, Antonio Pennisi on duty at the Cyber Security Operations Center – Postal Police – of Catania and Giuseppe Raffa, Pedagogist and Coordinator of the Anti-bullying Clinic of the ASP of Ragusa, they discussed the theme of the day, interacting with the students who also asked them numerous questions for further information. The topics covered were: gender discrimination, domestic violence, bullying, cyberbullying and crimes committed on the web. Social media, their correct use and how to defend yourself from illegal behavior.
