Richard Stones OBE and Boguslawa Motylska have spent the recent weeks developing relationships with CPTED stakeholders in Europe.
One of the highlights of the trip was the final conference of the IcARUS Project in Liege. This is one of the most important projects in Europe over the recent years that relate to CPTED.
IcARUS aims to learn from past experiences in urban security policies. The project’s main objective is to rethink and adapt existing tools and methods to help local security actors anticipate and better respond to security challenges in the context of:
A decline of citizens’ trust in institutions, local elected officials and other security and prevention actors;
Drastic budgetary cuts and various contemporary crises that affect local and national authorities;
The development of smart cities, which implies the effective inclusion of technological innovations in crime prevention.
The UEFA EURO 2024 was a fantastic background to the trans-national networking. We watched the semi-finals:
in an Irish pub
in Madrid
with our French colleagues and
drinking Belgium beer
