Local Security and Crime Prevention Council meeting in progress.
MARIGOT--Two conventions on resources were signed on Wednesday when the Local Security and Crime Prevention Council (Conseil Local de Sécurité et de Prévention de la Délinquance CLSPD) held a plenary session in Hôtel de la Collectivité.
One convention was signed between the Territorial Police and the Gendarmerie and the other between the Collectivité and Semsamar for Public Peace (Tranquillité Publique).
The session was chaired by President Louis Mussington, with Préfet Vincent Berton and Basse-Terre Prosecutor Xavier Sicot in attendance.
The objective was to sign strategic documents that will enable CLSPD to relaunch its activities and to take concrete action on the ground to prevent delinquency. There is a list of 24 actions to be deployed in the framework of crime-prevention.
“As soon as I took office, I immediately asked for regular meetings of the CLSPD, in order to be able to provide concrete answers for the young people of the territory exposed to delinquency,” Mussington said in his introductory remarks. “Today, as president of this body, I am happy to announce that the CLSPD is now in working order.”
Actions have already begun, such as the initiative “Collectivité at the heart of the districts”. Elected officials accompanied by representatives from Mission Local, the Employment Office and integration structures, go into the neighbourhoods to provide young people with solutions for professional and social integration. To date, some 50 young people have been consulted.
Other actions include redeployment of the territorial police force with a permanent presence, as of this year, in the priority neighbourhoods of Sandy-Ground and Quartier d’Orléans as well as in Grand-Case.
Territorial meetings of “adult relays”, supported by the State and coordinated by the Delegate of Préfet Berton, Véronique Coursil, will enable a plan to be defined for professionalisation of adult relays and to develop a network of mediation professionals.
More projects in the pipeline include signage, urban equipment and public lighting for the security of the territory, the priority dossier of the car pound, and video protection for public peace and quiet for all, including shopkeepers, visitors and inhabitants.
Mussington said he has assigned elected officials to specific tasks.
Territorial Councillor Martine Beldor will be responsible for all prevention actions with young people exposed to delinquency.
Senator Annick Pétrus will be responsible for actions to protect the most vulnerable groups: violence against women, inter-family violence, assistance to victims. She will also be responsible for the governance and major strategic projects of CLSPD, such as the local security diagnosis, the new Territorial Security and Prevention Strategy, and the development of a new strategy for the prevention of crime.
