1. General Information :
Population: 201 593 inhabitants
Location: Belgium
Website of the crime prevention service
Safety Contract signed in: 1994
Twinned with: Hirson (France), Saint-Junien (France), Sélestat (France), Schramberg (Allemagne), Waldkirch (Allemagne), Manoppello (Italie), Casarano (Italie), Follonica (Italie), Himeji (Japon), Donetsk (Ukraine), Pittsburgh (États-Unis)
2. The city in our network :
The city and Efus:
Member since : 1994
Member of the Executive Committee since : 2010
Participated in:
- Partner in the GOAL Project “Preventing violence in sport”, 2009-2012
- Partner in the project Democracy, Cities &Drugs I, 2005-2007
- Secucities Immigration :Migration –Prevention programme :A training system of reference for field actors, 2005-2006
- Partner in the project Abused and neglected Elderly Women, 2001-2002
- Partner in SecuCities Football : Euro 2000 cities against racism, 2000
Attended :
- General Assembly, Cascais, Portugal, 27th June 2013
- International Conference “Security, Democracy & Cities: The Future of Prevention”, Aubervilliers & Saint-Denis, France, 12-14 December 2012
- General Assembly, Brussels, Belgium, 7th June 2012
- Conference on Local Safety Audits, Brussels, Belgium, March 27th 2008
- International conference of Saragossa, Spain, November 2nd- 4th 2006
- Conference “A stadium in the city, a city in the stadium”, 4th and 5th of June 1999
- Conference “Is a gender-differentiated approach relevant in terms of urban safety?”, 30th of September and 1st of October, 1999
President of the Belgian Forum for Prevention and Urban Security: from 2013 to 2014
3. Best Practice Forms :
- Neighbourhood Wardens Scheme, Charleroi, 2006
- Prevention of Violence Theft Committed Against Shopkeepers, Charleroi, 2004
- Situational Prevention and urban planning, Charleroi, 2002
- Charleroi, an urban strategy and an event in a city project, Charleroi, 2000
- Safety in Hospitals, Charleroi, 1998
- Security of senior citizens, Charleroi, 2015
