The mesh is tightening around the crime

MIL OSI Translation. French Polynesian to English –

Source: Government of New Caledonia

The provincial committee on the prevention of delinquency met on 26 September in the chamber of the Southern province, under the aegis of the president of the province and of the high commissioner. The president of the government has drawn up a first assessment of some measures of the spatial plan of security and prevention of delinquency.

Gather the forces to make the actions of each more effective. This is the purpose of the provincial committee of crime prevention (CPPD), activated in 2016. High commissioner and president of the Southern province, representatives of the police, the gendarmerie, public prosecutor of the Republic, president of the government, mayors of the Southern province and partners working in the field of education and social met, Wednesday, September 26, to make the point on the evolution of delinquency in the South province and the actions implemented.

A statistical presentation of the police and of the gendarmerie in particular, found a general downward trend of the facts of delinquency since the beginning of the year, particularly in terms of damage to property. In terms of harm to people, however, the trend is on the rise. Increase that some of the participants were analyzed under the angle of “the word revealed” and which leads, in particular with regard to violence in the family and marriage, to an increase in the deposition of complaints.

After a point on the deployment of the security police of the day and the balance of the shares registered in the provincial Plan for the prevention of delinquency, it is income to the president of the government to present the latest regulatory changes on the sale of alcohol.

Combat the excessive consumption of alcohol

Philippe Germain has placed in the general framework of the first spatial plan of security and prevention of delinquency, 2018-2022. Among the many measures already implemented, “the fight against the excessive consumption of alcohol, number one priority, at the origin of the risk behaviour of the Caledonians, was the subject of a law of the country and deliberation, voted unanimously by the elected representatives of the Congress,” recalled the chairman of the executive. Alcohol comes in effect in 80% of cases of violence or delinquency, and the young are particularly affected. The co-ordinator of the policies of security and crime prevention at the government, Sébastien Lemoine, has reviewed the various prohibitions designed to regulate the business practices, ensuring the protection of minors in the face of alcohol, strengthen the measures to combat intoxication public and obvious (IPM) and the consumption of alcohol on the public way, the fight against the black market (read the document in download). Encouraging sign since the increase in taxes on alcoholic beverages, “the first six months of the year, there was a decline in imports of 60% for alcohol and 35 % for the wines, and a reduction in local production – 20% for beers and 14% for alcohol, “stressed the head of the mission, as well as” a reduction of intoxication and public manifest of 11 % in the first eight months. “

Better synergy

The president of the government also spoke of the joint struggle against the robbery : the efforts “significant” of the State, are added to the tax credit provided by the government on investments aimed at securing businesses and the provincial grant going in the same direction. Measures which are beginning to bear fruit : burglaries are down by 6.4%. Another manifestation of the joint efforts of all stakeholders, meetings of the board limits of safety and prevention of crime, co-chaired by the State and the government, which enable a “better synergy among the actors” in the sharing of information and the development of global responses.

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