Municipal advisors for public order and safety are fast gaining more responsibilities in the Dutch local safety domain, making their previously behind-the-screens role more visible. It is unclear to what extent this new visibility also increases the risks they face of encountering citizen aggression and violence. Existing policy and research attention is mostly focused on violence against the police and against more political local public officials such as mayors. In this study, we examine aggression and violence against municipal public order and safety advisors through a survey of people working in this profession in every municipality in the Netherlands. |
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Agressie en geweld tegen ambtenaren-OOV: In de spotlight van de burgemeester |
Trefwoorden | ambtenaar-OOV, lokale veiligheid, geweld tegen ambtenaren, onveiligheidsgevoelens |
Auteurs | Mervin Pinas, Dorian Schaap en Bas van Stokkom |
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Openbare orde en veiligheid in het college van burgemeester en wethouders. De rol van de ‘wethouder veiligheid’ |
Trefwoorden | wethouder veiligheid, burgemeester, lokaal bestuur, veiligheid, openbare orde |
Auteurs | Julien van Ostaaijen, Ellen van den Kieboom-Bolluyt en Ron Ritzen |
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At the Dutch municipal level, public order and safety are mainly associated with the mayor, who possesses most competences in that area. Nevertheless, in recent decades, the ‘safety alderman’ also seems on the rise. We define ‘safety alderman’ as an alderman that explicitly has safety, public order and/or enforcement in his or her portfolio. In this article, we examine how safety aldermen function, especially regarding cooperation with the mayor and other aldermen. We see that in practice an implicit or explicit dividing line exists between the work of a mayor and that of a safety alderman and that cooperation between the two is essential for the effective functioning of the safety alderman. |
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Verschillen tussen buurtclusters in de kans op woningbrand en samenhangende buurtkenmerken: een verkenning |
Trefwoorden | woningbrand, buurtclusters, buurtkenmerken, regressiemodel, verkenning |
Auteurs | Max Geelen en Ike Kroesbergen |
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This explorative research is focused on the rate of residential fires in neighborhoods in a region that highly variates in urban and rural areas. Firstly, based on neighborhood characteristics from open data this research distinguish clusters of neighborhoods using a clustering technique. Secondly, the rate of residential fire is analyzed for the clusters of neighborhoods and shows differences between those clusters. Furthermore, a regression model is made for the rate of residential fire in each of the clusters of neighborhoods. In the clusters of neighborhoods with higher rates of residential fire, percentage of private rental residences, percentage of persons who have a migration background, percentage of lower income households, percentage of one person households and percentage of smokers are higher. These results give direction to further research. The findings on this level of neighborhoods are not causal relations, and are not applicable to the rate of residential fire in individual residents or households. |
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‘Perceptions of Security’: centrale vernieuwingen in de studie naar angst voor criminaliteit |
Auteurs | Jelle Brands en Janne van Doorn |
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