Month: November 2023

ICPC shares its expertise at the First Inter-American Conference of Crime Observatories and Analysis Centres

The ICPC had the privilege of participating in the First Inter-American Conference of Crime Analysis Observatories and Centres, held online from November 21 to 22, 2023.

Organized by the Department of Public Security of the Organization of American States (DSP/OAS) and the Latin American Institute for Security and Democracy, and attended by some 150 participants, this was an opportunity for many representatives of research organizations, political and legal institutions, to exchange views on new methodologies, tools and public policies to combat the rise in insecurity and all forms of crime in the Americas.

Oscar Figueroa, Strategic Consultant for Latin America at ICPC, moderated a panel on the impact of different tools used and their application on geospatial crime analysis. The panel featured presentations from CentroGeo, with the participation of Pablo López Ramírez, General Director, Oscar Gerardo Sánchez Siordia, Coordinator (Yucatán headquarters) and Carlos Vilalta, Research Professor, as well as Arturo Arango, Director of CrimiPol, who presented tools and products developed from geospatial crime analysis.

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The ICPC attended an event organized by the IBCR on justice adapted to children

To celebrate the World Children’s Day, on Monday 20 November we had the pleasure of attending an event organized by the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR), which featured two panels on justice adapted to children

Organized at the Maison du développement durable in Montreal, this hybrid event, attended by almost 150 people, provided an opportunity for various national and international specialists to discuss new practices and solutions for combating the privation of freedoms and the lack of application of justice adapted to children’s rights around the world.   

It was also the opportunity for the ICPC to connect with its partner and network, with whom we are working on a project to develop a second line of sexual exploitation prevention services for youth aged 12 to 25.  

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A new employee joins the ICPC team!

With a PhD in geography from the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne since 2004, Djibril Diop has been a professor at the School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, since 2007, and at the Department of Political Science, since 2018, at the University of Montreal. 

Previously, Dr Diop was a research manager for a better operationalization of the concept of Proximity Security Governance (PSG) in Senegal before becoming, between 2019 and 2020, the Principal Consultant for the Senegalese National Gendarmerie as part of the preparations for the Presidential Council on Internal Security (2019-2020).  

Throughout his career, he has focused on development challenges, urban management and governance, particularly in the fields of security and the environment. 

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Welcome to the team! 

The ICPC participated at the 2023 PNI Fall Coordination Meeting

On November 1, Ann Champoux, Director General of the ICPC, took part in the 2023 Fall Coordination Meeting of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network (PNI) in Vancouver. This participation is part of the ICPC’s mission within the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).   

The objectives for achieving the Kyoto Declaration’s sustainable development programme on promoting crime prevention, by 2030, were central to the discussions.  Members also discussed their organization’s recent activities and projects to counter international crime.  

Ann Champoux (ICPC) and Dr. Peter German, KC, PhD (ICCLR)

As part of this mission to Vancouver, it was also an opportunity to attend the “Combatting Crypto Crime” Colloquium organized by the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute (within the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy) on November 2. Various experts in criminal justice, commercial law, and international financial crime discussed the challenges and risks represented today by the use of cryptocurrencies on various international markets.    

Solutions such as better governance to prevent fraud and money laundering, as well as strengthening the legislative framework, were presented in order to regulate the use of cryptocurrencies in the coming years.