Uruguay and Public Security

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MINISTRY OF INTERIOR

• Uruguay and Public Security
• Prevention Strategies
• Inter -American Specialized Conference on Public
  Security
• O.A.S. Ministry of Interior
• Montevideo, August 4th, 2009

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• Some basic facts about Uruguay

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• Population 3.340.000
• Unemployment 7,5
• Unemployment under 25 years 23,1
• Inflation 8,8
• Poverty 20,5

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• Children in poverty 39,4
• Adolescents in poverty 37,3
• Extreme poverty1,5
• Average monthly income per capita US 378
• Average monthly income of homes US 1.066

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• Key indicators of criminality

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• of Victimization 30
• Homicide rate 6,6 per 100.000 inhab.
• Robbery rate 31,9 per 100.000 inhab.
• Rate of Domestic Violence 37,2 per 100.000
  inhab.
• of non-denouncement (offences not reported to
  police) 35

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• Public insecurity and fear

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• Security viewed as the main problem of the
  country.
• Very high percentage of perceived increase in
  crime.
• Perception of insecurity linked to three basic
  factors
• Real victimization.
• Negative perception of Police performance.
• People of low and middle-low socioeconomic status.

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• Institutional Resources

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• A structure of Ministry of Interior as a
  functional equivalent of police.
• There are a total of 28.000 officers 848 per
  100.000 inhab 1 police every 118 inhab.
• There are 13.000 officers in preventive security
  tasks 394 per 100.000 inhab 1 police per 254
  hab.

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• Public opinion level of trust in the police
  High (15) Some (38).
• Prision system depends on the police at all
  levels of management.
• Numbers of inmates 8.300.
• Rate of inmates 252 per 100.000 inhab.

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• Reform processes and prevention strategies

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• Transformation and strenghening of the Ministry
  of Interior in its role of leadership of the
  security policy.
• Centrality of basic and professional training for
  the police
• Investment in high-tech security.
• Strategies of citizen participation, community
  control and preventive patrolling.

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Cabinet
technical-political and information systems

• New management structure at the level of
  administration, infrastructure, logistics,
  technology.
• Area of institutional policy and strategic
  planning
• Information systems development.
• Indicators of contexts, processes and outcomes.

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The strengthening of
police training

• The centrality of the training of junior staff.
• Infrastructure, teaching staff and curricula,
  aimed at the creation of technical skills.
• Reforms in the curricula for the training of the
  police officers.

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High-tech for Security

• New high-tech systems for security and to improve
  emergency response.
• Projects in the areas of data transmission, power
  sources, Unified Command Response Center,
  Prision Management System, Video Surveillance
  System, Migration Control System.

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Local officers for community liaison and citizen
security

• Social prevention programs promoted trough
  community based partneships.
• Situational prevention for the recovery of public
  spaces.
• Support for improvement in the provision of
  police services.

RM00040E