Nice | Torino | Liège | Madrid
Protect Allied Cities against TErrorism in Securing Urban aReas 2
Nice | Torino | Liège | Madrid
Protect Allied Cities against TErrorism in Securing Urban aReas 2The project’s objective
Protection of public spaces is still one of the major issues for European cities as they are vulnerable to many types of threats. Despite wide technological innovations, integration of new concepts, huge amounts of actions to raise stakeholders’ awareness, the center piece of the protection of public spaces remains the law enforcement agencies: their presence on the ground, their tools, their trainings, their level of cooperation with the private sector and their relationship with citizens.
PACTESUR2 aims at improving the protection of public spaces by enhancing the development of good practices at local level through the organization of high level trainings for local security forces and the exchange of police forces between cities. The other objectives of PACTESUR2 are to increase citizens’ participation and involvement on this very sensitive but complicated topic of securing our public spaces and to enhance public-private cooperation in the safety field enriching the work actually led in France and other European countries about the private/public security continuum.
PACTESUR2 will last 2 years from September 2023 to August 2025.
Partners
PACTESUR2 consortium involves 4 flagship cities strongly invested in proactive security policies (Nice, Madrid, Turin and Liège) and 2 partners (the Efus and ANCI- Piemonte) enabling the dissemination of the project towards a wider network of European cities.
PACTESUR2 will recruit in October 2023 a working group of 12 European cities. They will be associated to all the project activities. The call for expression of Interest will be published by mid-September 2023.
project based on four pillars
specialiSed training
The development of specialised training for local security practitioners as well as additional police exchanges during international events and summertime.
awareness-raising
Raising awareness among citizens and politicians on their role on prevention and as security actors. The Efus will be in charge of the main aspects of communication and dissemination of the project towards the European institutions and other networks. As urban security is a global challenge, this communication campaign will also aim to involve cities beyond those from the associated list, reaching municipalities outside the EU, from South and Central America, Senegal, South-Africa and Ivory Coast which have developed strong collaborative ties with the Efus.
innovative toolbox
Identifying the most adapted local investments for securing open public spaces by sharing field experience. This will imply the creation of innovative training tools for police forces and the experimentation of new strategies to improve the security of the oil port of Liège Wandre.
Inprovement of public-private cooperation
Workshops with all the relevant stakeholders, working groups with European experts and work meetings (online and in person) will be organized by the partners in order to complete a set of recommendations dedicated to the cities and the European Commission to enhance public-private cooperation regarding the protection of public places.