1. General Information :
Villiers-le-Bel is a commune in the south east of the Val-d’Oise department in the Île-de-France region, around 18km north of Paris. It is the capital of the canton Villiers-le-Bel. The commune was once a rural village in Pays de France until the 1920s when a housing development scheme turned it into a residential suburb; it underwent a dramatic social transformation after a large housing complex was built in the late 1950s. Its residents are called the “Beauvillésois” in French.
Population: 27,091 inhabitants
Location: France
2. The City in our Network :
The City and Efus
Member since 2000
Présence:
- General Assembly, Brussels, 7 June 2012
The City and the National Forum (FFSU)
Member of the Executive Committee from 2012 to 2015 and since 2016
Participated in
- Training session “Insecurity in the day and at night”, 5-6 June 2012
- Lunch-debate “Drug use: Portugal’s experience of decriminalisation”, FFSU, 10 February 2010
- Training session “Intermunicipal Links and Crime Prevention: The Issues“, Paris, 7 October 2009
- Training session “Municipal Police: Their Position and Doctrines”, Paris, 9-10 September 2009
- Training session “Crime Prevention and Child Protection: What are the links?”, Paris, 19-20 May 2009
- Training session “Amateur Sport and Violence”, Paris, 1 April 2009
- Training session “Urbanism and Security”, Paris, 4-5 March 2009
- Training session “The Law on Crime Prevention”, FFSU, 2008
Attended
- FFSU General Assembly, 26-27 June 2012
- Crime Prevention Award 2009, “Children and Teenages: Victims and Perpetrators of Violence at School, on the Internet and in Gangs“, Paris Sénat, 28 October 2009
- Bonnemaison Conference “1983- 2008: is security still everyone’s concern?“, Efus-FFSU, 5 December 2008
- FFSU General Assembly, Paris, 25 June 2008
- Conference “CCTV: Prevention, Surveillance, Protection?” on the local and national issues concerning the development of CCTV, FFSU, 25 June 2008
Supported
- Regional security and crime prevention strategy to improve social integration, January 2012
3. Further Information :
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