1. General Information :
Vaulx-en-Velin is a town in the Rhône department and the Rhône-Alpes region. It is in the north eastern suburbs of Lyon and is part of Est Lyonnais, a community of towns including Bron and Décines-Charpieu.
Population: 40,626 inhabitants
Location: France
Twinned with: Artik (Armenia), Böhlen (Germany), Montedoro (Italy), Orcha (Belarus), Le Port (France), Sébaco (Nicaragua), Chéraga (Algeria), Beit Sahour (Palestine)
2. The City in our Network :
The City and Efus
Member since 2016
The City and the National Forum
Member of the Executive Committee since 2007
- Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on the “French Organisation for Reducing the Risks linked to Drug Use: Presentation, Project and Future Collaboration with the FFSU”, FFSU, 10 November 2010
- Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on the “Charter for the Democratic Use of Video Surveillance”, FFSU, 29 September 2010
- Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on the presentation of the Bockel report “Preventing Juvenile Delinquancy: the Problem of Tomorrow”, FFSU, 5 May 2010
- Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “The Dangers of New Technology”, FFSU, 24 March 2010
- Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Drug Use: Portugal’s experience of decriminalisation”, FFSU, 10 February 2010
- Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “The challenges presented by the national plan to relaunch crime prevention”, FFSU, 30 September 2009
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “The Phenomenon of Gangs”, FFSU, 13 May 2009
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Mediation and Access to the Law”, FFSU, 25 March 2009
- Evaluation of the network of CCTV cameras in Vaulx-en-Velin, 2008-2009
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Elected Officials and Mental Health”, FFSU, 11 February 2009
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “The presentation of the National Institute of Higher Education Studies in Security, INHES”, FFSU, 10 December 2008
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “The International Centre’s guide to preventing crime as regards public disturbances linked to prostitution and drugs”, FFSU, 1 October 2008
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Prisoners’ Access to Human Rights”, FFSU, 21 May 2008
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Suburban Hope”, FFSU, 2 April 2008
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Information, Security and Freedoms”, FFSU, 30 January 2008
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Studying Public Security”, FFSU, 19 December 2007
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Social Services at the Police Station”, FFSU, 19 September 2007
- FFSU Executive Committee meeting and Lunch-debate on “Minimum Sentences and Reoffending Minors”, FFSU, 27 June 2007
Attended
- 2009 Crime Prevention Award Ceremony “Children and Teenagers: victims and perpetrators of violence at school, on the internet and in gangs“, Paris Senate, 28 October 2009
- Conference “Urban Violence in Cities”, Toulouse, 26 June 2009
- FFSU General Assembly, Toulouse, 25 June 2009
- FFSU General Assembly, Paris, 25 June 2008
- Conference on “CCTV: Prevention, Surveillance, or Protection?” on the national and local issues concerning the development of video surveillance, FFSU, 25 June 2008
- FFSU General Assembly, La Rochelle, 16 May 2007
- Conference “The Authority of Mayors and Information for them” concerning the role of mayors in crime prevention, La Rochelle, France 16 May 2007
3. Further Information :
News from the city
The city set up a municipal police force and a network of CCTV cameras.
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