The Next Generation Community Policing (NGCP) International Conference is co-organized by eight contributing R&D projects which are funded by the Horizon 2020 SECURITY Program of the European Commission.
Community policing aims at stressing prevention, early identification, timely intervention, as well as better crime reporting, identification of risks, unreported and undiscovered crime.
In large urban environments there are various challenges and threats to urban security linked to their big size and large population. New approaches and innovative solutions, including sustainable, affordable and transferrable security technologies, are needed to solicit citizens' engagement to prevent, mitigate and recover from the security challenges and to foster their direct participation in the improvement of the urban security conditions
All participating entities are expected to present innovative approaches for:
- Strengthened community policing principles through effective and efficient tools, procedures and approaches.
- Early identification, timely intervention, as well as better crime reporting, identification of risks, unreported and undiscovered crime through the community.
- Strengthened and accelerated communication between citizens and police forces. Overall, strengthened community feeling and lower feeling of insecurity.
- Reduce the fear of crime and enhance the perception of security of the inhabitants of large urban environments.
- Better addressing security challenges in large urban environments.
- Increase the perception of security of citizens by empowering them, fostering their sense of belonging to a greater community.
- Facilitating the engagement of citizens to improve the security conditions of smart cities.