Project description
Community-police engagement against crimes related to poverty
Criminal activities at the local level threaten the safety of urban neighbourhoods, especially in vulnerable areas. To tackle this, community engagement is being promoted, allowing the public to participate in policing decisions. The EU-funded BTL-COP project will develop a community-police engagement model called Trust in Neighbourhood Groups (TING), designed to fight poverty-driven and aporophobia-related crimes. This initiative will involve police, judicial actors and academic partners across Europe and the UK to build trust and enhance knowledge and leadership. It will focus on identifying, preventing and investigating crimes linked to poverty and negative attitudes towards vulnerable communities. The project aims to create effective police-community interactions to reduce poverty-related crime, establish safe community spaces and enhance police authorities' capability through training and effective practices.
Objective
BTL-COP will carry out European-UK societal and technological capacity building activities with police authorities, prosecutors, judicial actors, training and academic partners to build trust, in-depth tacit knowledge, face-to-face engagement and leadership. The project develops an innovative Trust in Neighbourhood Groups (TING) community-police engagement, deriving from the Viking word for an early form of a parliament. BTL-COP aims to identify, prevent and investigate major contemporary and emerging criminal activities linked to poverty-fuelled local criminal exploitation and aporophobia in UK/EU neighbourhood communities of practice. The project will demonstrate, test and validate social and technological research solutions, co-creating improved police-community engagement to reduce poverty-related crime, and establish community 'safe spaces'. Together, partners help develop Police Authorities’ cutting-edge capabilities to identify, prevent and investigate criminal activities, developing early warning knowledge, threat detection methods, tools, training curricula and manuals for police authorities, security, prosecutorial and judiciary agencies, improving effectiveness in crime reporting, evidence-building, and investigating criminal activities. As an R&I action, BTL-COP builds on best practice in coactive community-oriented policing, participatory research and communities of practice. BTL-COP draws on 90+ collective police authorities' years of effective community-police engagement, plus current and prior Horizon projects, to develop, promote, and disseminate highly successful COP models. The long term impact of BTL-COP is to recommend widescale future development of EU/UK trustworthy safe, sustainable local TING spaces to bring communities and police authorities together to build trust, enhance shared intelligence, leadership and resilience in the face of potential future catastrophes that may become highly vulnerable to g/local criminal exploitation
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON.2.3.2 - Protection and Security
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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