In 1999, the Federal Government presented its 1st "Action Plan to Combat Violence against Women" (API). Its main objectives were, inter alia, to create a model for action...
Protecting children and young persons from sexual abuse and exploitation is one of the Federal Governments major concerns. For this reason, the Federal Cabinet adopted the Action...
According to the Federal Republic of Germanys constitution, the Länder (states) are responsible for law enforcement within their territory. Thus each of the 16 German Länder can in...
Preventing and combating domestic violence is an area that Denmark has focused on for a longer period of time, and most recently in 2014 the Ministry of Children, Gender Equality...
In Denmark, between 360 and 475 rapes are reported annually. In addition to this are the unreported figures. Annually, it is estimated that about 2600 more incidents of rape or...
The Ministry of Public Order and Greek Police work together to confront domestic violence in Greece. The Project Management Team for Planning the Policy against Crime (PMT-PPC) was...
Trends: The number of robbery offences reported over the last 3 years (2011-2013) has increased, on average, by 19%. Relevant legislation: Law No. 154 of 4 April 2001 concerning...
Trends: The number of sexual crimes reported over the last 3 years (2011-2013) has decreased, on average, by 5%. Relevant legislation: Law No 66 of 15 February 1996, Regulations...
Trends: The number of vehicle crimes reported over the last 3 years (2011-2013) has increased, on average, by 4%. Relevant legislation: In Italy, the most common alleged vehicle...
VEHICLE CRIME Criminality of car stealing after 1989 has become the focus of attention not only of the police, criminologists and investigators, but also the entire society and...