It’s for me a pleasure to announce that VAZ Global / Marcel Zethoven has been selected and placed on the list of prospective experts for CEPOL, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training.
Read the latest Community Policing related articles on this website. This time: “Why We Need Broken Windows Policing ” written by William Bratton and George Kelling after the recent tragic incidents involving the NYPD (Winter 2014/2015).
Read three articles (in Dutch) about the important role of the community police officer in the Netherlands in the fight against terrorism. Click here for the scientific research documents – media articles published after the terror attacks in Paris november 2015.
The last few month there is worldwide interest for the Dutch model of community policing. Click here for an item of Nieuwsuur of NPO (Dutch National Television). Nice insights of the activities of a community police officer in The Netherlands. Item starts at 9.10.
In the first week of April 2016 VAZ Global organized in close collaboration with the Safer Sweden Foundation – Trygarre Sverige a fieldtrip to the Netherlands. We arranged an attractive 4-days programme and all logistics during the trip for more than 30 participants from different kind of Swedish organizations like local government (Stockholm, Goteborg, Malmo, Orebro, Upsalla (and more), Swedish Police, politicians, representatives of housing compagnies,…
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Amazing project in The Netherlands (Schiedam). Postmen on duty in the neighbourhood pay extra attention to solid waste and other by-law issues by making pictures of the (unwanted) situation. After embedding of the situation they informe the city services. Read more here.
Since last year the Community Police Officer in the Netherlands (wijkagent) is mentioned in the Policelaw, article 1.1 under J. This makes Community Policing in general and the position of the Community Police Officer in (economic) turbulent times even stronger. Read more here and in our news & articles.
VAZ Global will speak at the kick off of EUNWA. Read more or go to the website of proNachbar Austria.