The Strategies of Public Safety and Crime Prevention of the Settlements are in the Focus

Abstract

A system of values, which must be defined globally, stands behind the word „safety” nowadays, which formulates the demands of protection, the method and conditions of its assurance of the micro and macro communities of the society, the country at structured levels. However, the optimal level of safety of the public, the mentioned feeling of protection should never be defined as an instant situation, but it should be the result of deliberately planned, systematically harmonized, complementary actions. High standard of the level of public security regardless the population and the structure of settlement–taking into consideration the local specialities–is common interest. Reaching this can only be achieved by plan, thus vertically and horizontally coordinated manner, one of the most important element of it is the creation and execution of crime prevention and public security strategies at settlement level. The author in this study represents the results of a research being executed at the Southern Great Plain of Hungary with the participation of local governments and police leaders, focuses on the presence, creation and execution of local strategy.