The University of Salford (USAL)
Project Coordination
The University of Salford has over 19,000 students and is one of the UK's leading enterprise universities because of its links with industry and the community. With access to over 20 specialist centres, 100 testing laboratories and 25 business clubs, working with thousands of companies regionally, nationally and internationally, University researchers thrive on encouraging innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and impact. Specialist Research Centres include: Democracy & Human Rights (Dr Berger), European Security, Disaster Resilience (Prof. Amaratunga), Social Research (Prof. Birkbeck, criminology) and the Design Against Crime Solution Centre—which will coordinate this project.
The Design Against Crime Solution Centre provides leadership in the field of design-led, sustainable practice in crime prevention and community safety.
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DSP-groep BV (DSP)
Policy research and social innovation
Established in 1984 DSP-groep is a leading institute for policy research and social innovation, established in 1984 and based in The Netherlands (Amsterdam-NL). Areas of expertise include: Crime Prevention; Evaluating design and technology approaches to Safety and Security; Youth, Welfare and Health care; Policing; Leisure/Sports and Culture; Crime prevention through Urban Design and Planning (CP-UDP) and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). With a scientific staff of 40 people DSP carries out assignments for national and international clients.
DSP has worked in the field of crime prevention and petty crime for the European Commission reviewing Costs and Benefits Analysis in Crime Prevention (Paul van Soomeren and Jack Wever, 2005 for EUCPN).
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG)
Social, Ethical and Legal impact of crime
The University of Groningen (RUG) is in the top 100 on several, influential ranking lists and is very popular with its 27,000 students and 5,500 staff members from the Netherlands and more than 100 countries around the world. Talent is nurtured, enabling the University to bridge the gap between science and society. RUG is committed to actively collaborating with its social partners. Acting in this direction, the Data Research Centre of Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden will utilise its expertise to take the lead on various themes related to the social, ethical and legal implications of new methods to prevent, investigate and mitigate high-impact petty crimes.
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The National Police of the Netherlands (NPN)
LEA
In the Netherlands the National Police (Dutch: Korps Nationale Politie) provide policing services. The headquarter is in The Hague.
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Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
LEA
The key objectives GMP are working towards are to provide a better service to the public by responding to the needs of individuals and communities, especially victims and witnesses of crime; tackle anti-social behaviour; reduce burglary, vehicle crime, robbery and drug related crime; combat serious and organised crime; and increase the numbers of offences brought to justice. In addition, the police force is expected to reduce terrorist activity and the threat of terrorism. These objectives are achieved through partnership working, investigating crime, reassuring communities and providing a reliable service.
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Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet(PJP)
LEA
• Protection of public order,
• Organisation of matters of border management,
• Detection and elimination of marine pollution,
• Organisation of search and rescue operations at sea, and;
• Organisation of matters in the area of citizenship and migration.
Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (EPBGB) is a police authority. The police in Estonia is an institution of executive power within the area of government of the Ministry of the Interior. The main functions therefore are protection of public order, organization of matters of border management, detection and elimination of marine pollution, organization of search and rescue operations at sea, and organization of matters in the area of citizenship and migration. EPBGB has participated and is participating in various international projects, including FP7 and Horizon2020.
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Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen (LKA)
LEA
The Lower Saxony State Office of Criminal Investigation was founded in 1946. It is a central department in the police service of Lower Saxony and responsible for collaboration with the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) as well as other state units. In 2006 the Criminological Research Department (KFST) was established within the LKA NI. The KFST’s main task is to carry out practical criminological research and to give scientific advice to all levels of the police force in criminological issues. Through this crime prevention related issues has become a central interest, and from 2009 through 2012 the LKA NI coordinated the EU-Project "Planning urban Security” (PluS), which was part of the ISEC program "Prevention of and Fight Against Crime".
Since 2013, the LKA has been involved in several research projects within the framework of civil security research of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). As the network coordinator, the LKA was responsible for two projects concerning Urban Security (transit 2013-2017) and (DiverCity, starts in 2018). In addition to projects that are funded by third-party funds LKA also carries out projects that focus directly on operational issues. One such project is PreMAP (Predictive Mobile Analytics for Police), in which algorithms are designed to predict and subsequently to prevent future burglaries.
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Camara Municipal de Lisboa (CML)
LEA
The Lisbon Municipal Police (LMP) is a specialized body of the Lisbon Municipality composed by police officers and a civilian staff, in a total of 700 workers, with the mission to ensure the compliance with all laws and regulations relating to local authorities competences (e.g. Oversight of Road Traffic, Public Space, Nature Protection, Commerce, Construction Sites, Municipal Housing), contributing to the protection of local communities and the improvement of citizen’s quality of life in the city of Lisbon. Under it's Community Policing Strategy, the LMP promotes and actively participates in local safety partnerships, bridging all groups in the communities, to jointly set strategies and actions to tackle security problems at local level, aiming to enhance the security and feeling of security in the city.
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Departament d’Interior – Generalitat de Catalunya (INT)
LEA
The Department of Interior of the Government of Catalonia is divided into a General Secretariat, four General Directions and 2 autonomous organisations, and within Catalonia it is responsible for:
1. The Generalitat Police
2. The coordination of the local police services of Catalonia
3. The Construction of a coherent police system and integrates
4. The inspection of private security companies
5. The yearly report on Public Safety in Catalonia, the Crime Victimization survey and the Public Safety plan
6. Civil Protection and Emergencies
Deutscher Präventionstag (DPT)
Crime Prevention Research
The German Congress on Crime Prevention – GCOCP (in German: Deutscher Präventionstag – DPT) was founded in 1995. Not only does the DPT organise the world's largest annual conference on crime prevention and related prevention areas, it also forms with its Institute for Applied Prevention Research (DPTI) a platform for information sharing and knowledge transfer. Moreover, the DPTI cooperates with other scientific and public institutions and participates in practice-oriented research. DPT and DPTI promote an interdisciplinary dialogue between prevention practice, prevention research and prevention policies.
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European forum for urban security (Efus)
NGO
Efus is a European network of local and regional authorities dedicated to urban security, it is made up of experts from both universities and private institutions and brings together around 250 local and regional authorities from 16 European countries. Efus acts as a consultant in the field of crime prevention within the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission. Efus is a member of the Civil Society Forum on Drugs and assists with the activity carried out by the European Union Crime Prevention Network. It is also the Regional Vice President of the Global Network on Safer Cities, led by UN Habitat, representing Europe. One of its missions is to bring together research and practice. As such, Efus has been partner of and associated to a series of research projects, Efus will bring to CCI Project a pan-European dimension.
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LOBA.cx
Business and Communications
LOBA is a business and marketing consulting company based in Portugal with branches in Angola (Africa) and Brazil(South America). Established in 2000, LOBA has more than 35 qualified staff Members including senior executives, consultants, researchers, designers and programmers. LOBA is specialised in delivering the following services: dissemination and communication services including marketing activities, exploitation of results and technology watch (from planning and organising to directing and controlling), consultancy services in the definition and implementation of innovation strategies in organisations (i.e.innovation processes, organisational development, technology and innovation audits), and, last but not least, management services including project management,Financial management, reporting, quality and risk management.
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