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Keynote Speaker 1: Elizabeth Johnston, Deputy Director, European Forum for Urban Safety
“Using the European level to make a difference locally”
Whilst they may not always have statutory responsibilities to fully ensure citizens’ safety, local authorities have to respond daily to a wide range of concerns of citizens, from fear of crime and anti-social behaviors to extreme situations of trafficking in human beings, in drugs or dealing with the aftermath of terrorist attacks. Locally elected officials and community safety coordinators therfore require constantly renewed means to analyse and apprehend their political and social responsibilities.
Based on the belief that knowledge is created through exchange and confrontation of ideas, the network of the European Forum for Urban Safety has, for the last twenty years, been running thematic programmes aimed at promoting co-operation among cities to share know-how, develop opportunities and challenge existing practices. Elizabeth Johnston will outline the achievements, benefits and potential of these programmes to support the quest for new methods of delivering community safety.
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