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The ICPC strengthens its influence in Latin America through two presentations

On July 24, we had the pleasure of sharing our expertise at the International Congress on Good Practice in Security and Crime Prevention, organized by our member the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the municipality of Querétaro in Mexico. One of the topics covered was the importance of community policing in creating a climate of trust between law enforcement agencies and local communities. In addition, Oscar Figueroa, our strategic consultant in Latin America, outlined our impact internationally and in Quebec, particularly through projects developed by our Urban Safety Laboratory, which was implemented in 2020. The day was also an opportunity to share best practices with local, national, and international stakeholders, and to strengthen our collaboration for the creation of  safer and more sustainable cities. 

International Congress on Good Practice in Security and Crime Prevention.

In addition, on August 21, we  had the opportunity to build on  this momentum by  speaking in the Municipality of Nuevo León, at the 3rd municipal community prevention forum, and during a visit to the León Metropolitan Public Security Academy in Guanajuato. This time, our role was twofold: to contribute our expertise as specialists in criminal analysis, and to develop a relationship with  stakeholders involved in  the police academy. This visit was essential to explore  the possibilities of  support that the ICPC could offer to this municipality, and to other municipalities in Mexico. It also illustrated our commitment to supporting our local partners in the implementation of effective prevention strategies tailored to local realities.  

Visit to the León Metropolitan Public Security Academy in Guanajuato. 

These two events demonstrate our commitment to consolidating our presence in Latin America, not only by sharing our knowledge and expertise, but also by forging close relationships with key partners in the region.   

3rd municipal community prevention forum in Guanajuato.

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To watch Oscar Figueroa’s intervention (22min10-1hour16) :

The ICPC welcomes a new international member

The ICPC is proud to announce a new collaboration with the Blas Pascal University (UBP) located in Córdoba, Argentina. This new member of our network marks a significant step forward in the strengthening of our international relations, aimed at facilitating the exchange of knowledge and expertise in crime prevention and community safety.  

Founded in 1990, UBP stands out for its multi-sectoral approach and its commitment to innovation and internationalization, values that resonate deeply with the ICPC’s missions. These, being closely linked to issues of community safety, citizen security, crime and violence prevention, and due some of UBP’s training programmes, aim to develop a joint platform to strengthen knowledge transfer. We are confident that the UBP will bring to the ICPC network academic and cultural resources from this Latin American country.  

In view of the forthcoming collaboration between the ICPC and the UBP, the aim is to open doors for the exchange of information and experience, thereby broadening our understanding and working methods in the field of urban safety. Also, it underlines our shared commitment to strengthening community safety and quality of life in the Latin American region, through education, research and international collaboration. Indeed, a meeting with the university’s academic executive board was held on April 17,  2024, attended by Teresa Beatriz Olivia, the university’s Rector, Pamela del Valle Caceres, Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Dr Jorge Luis Jofre, Director of the Diploma in Public Safety and the Diploma in Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation, and Jorge Alberto Castillo, from the career management team in these departments.  

The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange perspectives on joint projects, focusing on issues relating to urban safety and crime observatories, aiming to  benefit both academia and professional practice in these key sectors.  

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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Participation of the ICPC in a session of exchange of experiences and innovation of the Inter-American Community of Crime Observatories

The first session of the 2023 Inter-American Community of Crime Observatories, Department of Public Security of the Organization of American States, was held on April 26. The ICPC was represented at the event by Oscar Figueroa, the organization’s Latin American consultant.

The session focused on the transfer of prevention and security models between two municipalities in the region, and the important role played by Observatories in the design, implementation, and monitoring of projects. Representatives from the municipality of Peñalolén (Chile) and the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico) shared their respective models of rights promotion and social prevention, as well as their model of social proximity, and also shared the lessons learned from the exchange and transfers carried out. Security experts emphasized the importance of collaboration and communication between crime observatories to achieve effective security solutions.

ICPC releases the first crime report in the Urban Agglomeration of Montreal

The ICPC has published its first report  on crime in the Agglomeration of Montreal. 

The report provides an overview of the offences that took place in the territory over the last few years, for the nineteen boroughs and fourteen related cities that make up the Urban Agglomeration of Montreal. It allows us, among other things, to know and understand the crime data collected according to the rules of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR 2.2) of the Quebec Ministry of Public Safety, from 2015 to 2020. 

This report is divided into two sections with six chapters: 

- The first section presents the state of crime in Montreal and specifically addresses the evolving trends in crimes against the person and crimes against property, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the latter, as well as the spatial, geographical and relational dimensions of crime in the territory. 

- The second section focuses on specific issues of concern to policy makers.  

The chapters included in this section integrate an in-depth analysis of the components of offences related to the themes of sexual offences and conjugal and intra-family violence. 

Discover the report here

The report is only available in French.

Winners of the DataJam Against Exploitation revealed

Friday June 4th, at the end of the DataJam Against Exploitation that brought together 75 participants of 16 different nationalities, the winning teams were announced. In first place came Buyer Resist from Vancouver who created a web app that helped track traffickers by comparing the text from escort agency adds across Canada. They will receive a monetary prize and a spot in the IBM Incubator Program to help them further develop their project. They will also be invited to participate in the DataJam Pasos Libres 2021 that will take place on a world-wide scale in the fall, and lastly, their project will be promoted by all the co-organizers of the DataJam Against Exploitation.

Team Scotiabank AMA from Toronto, 5 data scientists from Scotiabank Anti-Money Laundering Models and Analytics (AML), came in second place, and the third place went to CDL Team from Montreal and affiliated with Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (Mila). This event marked the official ending of the competition.

The ICPC organizes a focus group of local Saint-Laurent stakeholders

The ICPC met with various community and institutional key actors working in the Saint-Laurent neighbourhood as part of the process leading up to a local safety audit.

This focus group’s goal was to better contextualize local realities, to identify the more at-risk parties, and to shed light on emerging problems that might not have been brought up in literature reviews or statistics. Speaking with local actors provides us with a more accurate view of local crime issues.

The local safety audit will be finished in June 2021.

The ICPC presents the “DataJam Against Exploitation” as a means of preventing human trafficking

On the 21st of May at The Cybersecurity Revolution 2021 event (SECREV) hosted by SERENE-RISC, the ICPC participated in a conference on cybersecurity with the Fundación Pasos Libres. They presented the DataJam Against Exploitation 2021 as a technological innovation and a means of prevention against human trafficking.

SECREV is a free annual online event who’s goal is to facilitate the international exchange of information on cybersecurity.

The conference is available in on YouTube.

Press Release: The ICPC commits to combating human trafficking in Canada

A FIRST NATION-WIDE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION COMPETITION TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CANADA IS LAUNCHED

The ICPC, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Fundación Pasos Libres and IBM, are proud to announce the launch of “DataJam Against Exploitation”, the country’s first of its kind online innovation competition aimed at developing technological solutions to identify and combat human trafficking in Canada, particularly among youth as well as Indigenous and LGBTQI+ communities. This competition is funded by the Government of Canada.

Read the press release: Press release (April 2021)

 

Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

Due to the global situation related to COVID-19 and other related factors, the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, scheduled to be held in Kyoto, Japan, April 20-27, 2020, has been postponed to March 7-12, 2021.

In its resolution 72/192, the General Assembly decided that the following issues would be considered in workshops:

(a) Evidence-based crime prevention: statistics, indicators and evaluation in support of successful practices

(b) Reducing reoffending: identifying risks and developing solutions

(c) Education and youth engagement as key to making societies resilient to crime

(d) Current crime trends, recent developments and emerging solutions, in particular new technologies as means and tools to combat crime

ICPC, which is part of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network, contributed remotely to the preparation and organization of Workshop 1: Evidence-based crime prevention: statistics, indicators and evaluation in support of successful practices as part of a segment on comprehensive strategies for crime prevention towards social and economic development. This two-day workshop will enable participants to become more familiar with different approaches and best practices in evaluation, indicator production and statistical data collection to support evidence-based crime prevention.

Information and agenda