PREVENTING AND COUNTERING

1
SECURITY MARKETING PROJECT
PREVENTING AND COUNTERING STREET CHILDREN
PHENOMENON IN DISTRICT 1
- BUCHAREST-
2
STAGES OF THE PROJECT
1. First steps (01.12.2005-01.01.2006)

• Setting and training the team of the project
  having as members the chiefs of Police stations
  within District 1 and proximity officers
• Identification of the problem which affects the
  safety of citizens who dwell in District 1

2. Identification and analysis of the problem
(01.01-01.05.2006)
- SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS

• Creating and carrying out a survey which analyzed
  peoples opinion
• regarding this matter, its causes and the
  measures that were thought
• to be suitable

3

• - the outcome was that 86 of the interviewed
  were disturbed by
• the beggars and vagrants presence in the
  street, however 32
• admitted having offered money, food or clothes
  to them and also
• permitted them to sleep at the entrance of the
  buildings.
• Moreover, 62 of the interviewed are not
  familiar with the public
• Authorities that deal with the problem.

- OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS

• The project working group analyzed the
  phenomenon through the
• number of crimes committed by these persons in
  2005, being identified
• certain social causes which permit the emergence
  of this phenomenon.

4
CAUSES OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE PHENOMENON

• Lack of family
• Lack of means
• Indulgence in this irresponsible way of life
• Failure of the action of the entitled
  authorities
• Lack of legislation regarding social reinsertion
  of the children
• A rather small number of places in the shelters
  compare to the number of the children in the
  streets
• Lack of support of the NGOs

5
Number of crimes committed by the street
children in 2005 203
The police stations of District 1
6
NUMBER OF FINES APPLIED BY POLICE OFFICER OF
DISTRICT 1 TO THE JUVENILES IN 2005
TOTAL number 1002
7
THE POLICE OFFICERS FINED JUVENILES FOR THE
FOLLOWING
BEGGARY 1060
VAGRANCY 33
LACK OF JUVENILE SURVEILANCE 34
URGING JUVENILES TO COMMIT CRIMES 9
8
NUMBER OF JUVENILES IDENTIFIED IN THE DISTRICT 1
AREA AND PLACED IN PINOCHIO SHELTER BETWEEN
01.10.2005 AND 31.01.2006
NUMBER OF JUVENILES PLACED IN THE SHELTER 220
9
DRUG ADDICTION OF THE IDENTIFIED STREET
CHILDRED
Aurolac
Others
10
NUMBER OF JUVENILES IDENTIFIED IN THE DISTRICT 1
AREA AND PLACED IN PINOCHIO SHELTER BETWEEN
01.10.2005 AND 31.01.2006
The reason for placement
11
NUMBER OF JUVENILES IDENTIFIED IN THE DISTRICT 1
AREA AND PLACED IN PINOCHIO SHELTER BETWEEN
01.10.2005 AND 31.01.2006
NUMBER OF JUVENILES PLACED IN THE SHELTER 220
12
3. Choosing partners (01.05-15.05.2006)

• District 1 Municipality through General
  Directorate of Social
• Service and Child protection
• Community Police of District 1
• School Inspectorate of District 1
• Analysis and Crime Prevention within the
  G.D.B.P.
• National Anti-drug Agency through C.P.E.C.A.
  District 1
• Public Health Directorate of Bucharest
• Life and Light Organization

13
3. The making off of the project
(15.05-01.09.2006)

• setting goals - establishing target groups -
  setting tasks for the partners
• setting a final evaluation method after two
  years and an intermediate one
• after one year
• It was a fruitful cooperation with the
  representatives of the public
• authorities and NGOs involved in similar projects
  in different Districts of Bucharest, one of the
  topic being the amendment of the legislation
• It has been discussed the foundation of the Local
  Centre for
• coordinating the street children issues and
  creation of a data-base
• containing these persons.

14
OBJECTIVES

• identifying the risk areas
• diminishing the crimes committed the street
  children
• Reducing the risk of becoming a victim
• setting a work strategy
• decreasing the number of families who live in
  the street and send
• their children out for begging
• Creation and monitoring a data-base containing
  these persons.
• developing new facilities and 24/7 shelters

15
OBJECTIVES

• Assuring the psychological counseling for the
  children placed
• in social shelters
• Setting up some proper training and educational
  programs for
• the children reinsertion into regular or special
  schools
• - Taking certain measures in order to prevent
  their coming back
• in the streets
• School abandonment monitoring
• Looking for any solution to stop the drug use in
  the school
• Making the citizens being aware regarding the
  importance of
• reporting the presence of any child in the
  street
• Periodical meetings of all the partners in the
  project for monitoring
• the activities and preventing any possible
  difficulties.

16
UNFOLDING THE PROJECT (01.09.2006-01.09.2008)

• Within this period of time the already
  established measures will be carry
• on and also some evaluation of the activities
  will be performed, the first
• one within the period 01-15.09.2007