Barcelona

1.   General Information:

Barcelona is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain. Barcelona is recognised as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts and international trade.Barcelona is a major economic centre with one of Europe’s principal Mediterranean ports, and Barcelona International Airport is the second largest in Spain after the Madrid-Barajas Airport (handles about 30 million passengers per year).

As the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona houses the seat of the Catalan government, known as the Generalitat de Catalunya; of particular note are the executive branch, the parliament, and the Supreme Court of Catalonia. The city is also the capital of the Barcelonès comarca (shire)

Population: 1,615,908 Inhabitants (2008)

Location: Spain

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Prevention & Safety

Twinned with:

• Sarajevo (Bosnie-Herzégovine),
• Boston (États-Unis),
• Cologne (Allemagne), Rosario (Argentine),
• Montevideo (Uruguay),
• Montpellier (France),
• Montréal (Canada),
• Monzón (Espagne),
• Perpignan (France),
• Tel Aviv (Israël)

2. The City in our Network:

The City and the EFUS:

Member since : 1986

Member of Executif Committee since : 2009

Participated :

• Partner in the “Safer Touristic Cities” (2013-2015)
• Partner in Steet violence project (2011-2012)
• Partner in Reintegration of isolated foreign Minors, victims of trafficking 2007-2009
• SecuCities Managers project 2000-2001
• Conference “A stadium in the city, a city in the stadium” 4th and 5th of June 1999
• The Pertinency of Drug Prevention Messages project 1998-1999
• International Conference on Community policing  14-15 December 1998
• Conference “Faces of justice and poverty in the city” 1996
• Conference “Urban transports, safety and social crisis” October 30^th-31^st 1995
• Security and democracy 1993-1994

Attended:

• General Assembly, Brussels, Belgium, 7th June 2012
• Euro-Mediterranean Conference on the Protection of Isolated Minors, Marseille, France, 25^th-26th of November 2002
• Efus General Assembly, Genoa, May 19th 2011
• Efus General Assembly, Berlin, May 10th 2010
• Efus General Assembly, Toulouse, France, June 25^th 2009
• Efus General Assembly, Rome, Italy, July 6^th 2007
• Efus General Assembly, Brussels, Belgium, May 5^th 2006
• Efus General Assembly, Piacenza, Italy, June 10^th 2005
• Efus General Assembly, Brussels, Belgium, May 10^th 2004
• Efus General Assembly, Rome, Italy, November 21^st 2003
• Efus General Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal, July 4^th 2003
• Efus General Assembly,L’Hospitalet, Spain, December 13^th 2002
• Efus General Assembly, Paris, France, December 10^th 2001
• Efus General Assembly, Naples, Italy, December 7^th 2000
• Efus General Assembly, Brent, United Kingdom, December 2^nd 1999
• Efus General Assembly,Paris, France, October 16^th 1998
• Efus General Assembly,Paris, France, March 7^th and 8^th 1997
• Efus General Assembly,Porto, Portugal, October 21, 1996
• Efus General Assembly,Turin, Italy, November 21^st and 22^nd 1994
• Efus General Assembly,Paris, France, November 19^th 1991
• International conference of Saragossa, Spain, November 2^nd– 4^th 2006

Hosted :

• General Assembly June 2008
• Young Latin.  Public space and urban culture”, organized by the City of Barcelona the 21 –22 of November 2005.
• International Seminar ‘Urban Crime: Statistics and Analysis’, Barcelona (Spain), 15th and 16th October 1990
• Creation of Efus 1986

The City and the Spanish Forum:

Secretary of the Spanish Forum

Hosted:

• General assembly 2009

3. Best practices:

• Enquête de victimisation, Barcelona, 1996
• Médiateurs de santé, Barcelona, 1996
• Les médiateurs communautaires, Barcelona, 1997
• Les gardiens du parc, Barcelona,  1997
• 22 ans d’enquêtes de victimisations, Barcelona, 2006
• Creation of cultural associations for the Latin Kings and Ñetas gangs, Barcelona
• BCN antiRUMORS: Strategy and campaign against rumours, Barcelona, 2015