One of the most important tasks of the police consists in preventing violence and to ensure that individuals can lead a life without being afraid of assaults. Established in 1997...
The Advisory Committee for the Prevention and Combating of Violence in the Family is the coordinating body for dealing with Domestic Violence issues in Cyprus and aims at...
The Cyprus Police has adopted the Community Policing Program, which has been in effect since 2003. The program aims at instilling feelings of safety and security amongst the...
Cyprus Police operate in multi-leveled ways to prevent all kinds of sexual crime. The main areas of concern is this context are: child sexual abuse, child pornography, prostitution...
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...
Safety and its opposite, fear of crime, are two important and central issues in crime prevention efforts. Recent years have brought a significant increase in the number of studies...
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...
Domestic violence prevention and prosecution of perpetrators is one of the priorities of the Polish police. Domestic violence is described as a separate crime in the Polish Penal...