| Title | Cheongju Wins Presidential Award at the 4th Korean Crime Prevention Awards. |
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| Writer | Urban Planning Division |
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Cheongju Wins Presidential Award at the 4th Korean Crime Prevention Awards.
Cheongju City has won the Presidential Award (overall excellence) of 4th Korean Crime Prevention Awards co-hosted by the National Police Agency and the JoongAng Ilbo at a ceremony held in the newspaper company’s Hoam Art Hall in Seoul. The Korean Crime Prevention Award is hold to cite public organizations, civic groups and companies contributing a great deal to the prevention of crime in communities. Since the launch of the consolidated city of Cheongju and Cheongwon-gun in 2014, the city has been exerting its effort to build an institutional framework for “making Cheongju safer and more livable” by implementing guidelines for “Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)” in 2014 and enacting the municipal ordinance for CPTED in 2015. Cheongju City received the prize for contributing greatly to the creation of the safe urban environment from crime by carrying out CPTED projects that “go with citizens and make them feel” step by step after the establishment of the comprehensive CPTED plan in 2017. ▶Establishment of ‘Cheongju Comprehensive CPTED Plan’ for First Time in Korea A series of violent crimes that became a social issue recently has made urban safety an important indicator for the settlement environment amid citizens’ rising concerns about safety of the city. According to a social survey conducted by Statistics Korea in 2018, citizens’ fear factors were crime (20.6%), national security (18.6%), environmental pollution (13.5%) and economic risk (12.9%). As a response to this growing concern, Cheongju City built systems to share information and cooperate closely with the police and related organizations and endeavored to implement improvement measures to create a living environment for a “brighter and safer city” and remove blind spots from crimes targeting the disadvantaged that include women, children and senior citizens. As a result, based on crime safety diagnosis of the city’s administrative districts by crime prevention officers (CPOs) of local police departments, Cheongju created CPTED action strategies and step-by-step implementation plans for areas vulnerable to crime by establishing the “Cheongju Comprehensive CPTED Plan.” ▶Implementation of Pilot Project on Yukgeori Traditional Market in Clean City Cheongju Before implementing step-by-step projects in earnest, the city made a plan for pilot projects to build knowhow and analyze effects at a cost of KRW 800 million. They included establishing a real-time monitoring system for the arcade section (reinforcement of artificial surveillance); organizing the main gate plaza of Yukgeori Market (creation of symbolic bases) and spaces for alleys and parking lots (reinforcement of location recognition); and installing logojectors, alarm bells and safety zones (introduction of CPTED facilities). ▶1st-stage CPTED Project for Entertainment District and One-room Town The city scrutinized the status of theft, violence and sexual crimes targeting the entertainment district around the Gagyeong-dong Intercity Bus Terminal and the one-room town inside the industrial complex in Guryong-ri, Ochang-eup, and their spatial characteristics. Among the first-stage projects completed at a cost of KRW 1 billion are the creations of wall paintings and parklets (reinforcement of function to survey nature); space separation of pedestrian-friendly streets and roads (increase of space utilization); and installation of anti-crime checkpoints, gas covers for anti-crime purposes and reflection sheets of parking lots (support for private CPTED facilities). ▶2nd -stage CPTED Project Advancing with Citizens The city has been implementing the 2nd-stage project targeting the Habokdae entertainment district in Bokdae-dong, Heungdeok-gu, schools and studio towns. Based on the results of analyzing problems detected in the course of project implementation and their effects, the city has formed a private, municipal and economic council and a task force to help resolve conflicts among residents and make reasonable decision-making. The city is focusing on creating safe villages with citizens by receiving active feedback and developing village branding and empowerment education programs through the survey of residents and project explanation sessions. This plan will be completed at a cost of KRW 500 million this month. Cheongju also signed an MOU concerning CPTED with Heungdeok Police Station (crime prevention-centered police station) to expand infrastructure facilities for crime prevention including the diagnosis of crime safety and development of CPTED projects. ▶Analysis of CPTED Effects and Major Results A survey of citizens’ satisfaction with the pilot Yukgeori Market project in 2017 has found that concerns about crimes declined 69% after the implementation of the project. As the diagnosis of crime safety showed that the number of top five crimes, including theft (-10), violence (-11) and rape (-2), plunged about 45% compared to the period before the project was implemented, the project is evaluated to have a positive impact on raising citizens’ awareness about urban safety. Another survey of citizens’ satisfaction with the Target Hardening pilot project covering the studio town (Guryong-ri, Ochang-eup) conducted in cooperation with Cheongwon Police Station and Secure Design & Technology Korea in 2018 also has found that citizens’ satisfaction increased 23%. The creation of the institutional framework for CPTED and active introduction of CPTED allowed Cheongju to make the following achievements. These include the selection of the top 10 municipal achievement by Cheongju City in 2017; the selection of citizen-friendly excellent policy in 2017; the selection of the excellent women-friendly city creation project in 2017 and 2018; and the selection of the excellent CPTED region. This year Cheongju won the Presidential Award at the Korean Crime Prevention Award. ▶Cheongju’s Future Tasks in Crime Prevention The city plans to devote itself to forming CPTED task forces aimed at resolving problems such as insufficient manpower in charge of CPTED and the absence of units managing CPTED facilities; enacting the ordinance for sustainable projects; and developing new projects (which will be participated in by citizens) and how to finance them. “We will build systems to share information and cooperate for joint policing based on communities. We will also endeavor to create a safe city environment from crimes by raising citizens’ interest in CPTED projects and inducing their participation,” a city official said. ▶Inquiry: Urban Facility Team, Urban Planning Division (☎043-201-2443) |
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