The Center for Security Analysis and Modeling (CEAMOS), University of Chile, with support from SOFOFA and Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM), launched the third version of Wamos 2013 on January 21th, which aims review issues, trends and challenges in public safety, from a scientific and predictive point of view.
The event was inaugurated by the Minister of Justice, Patricia Perez, who remarked that one of the main government endeavors has been aimed to improve the social reintegration and reduce recidivism rates.
“We are investing 80% more in rehabilitation. If in 2008 were invested 6,800 million pesos, today is the sum of 28,000 million pesos, to incorporate more than 500 people for the rehabilitation”, she said.
In this context, the Minister highlighted CEAMOS driven initiative and called scientists to continue providing their expertise in quantitative studies, to improve the country security indices.
The three-day conference gathers experts and researchers from Canada, the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands, along with representatives of Citizen Peace, Chilean police, Gendarmerie, Police Research and the University of Chile, Adolfo Ibañez, and PUC, among others.
The inaugural lecture was given by Richard Wortley of Jill Dando Institute, University College of London (UK), who highlighted an increasing global trend urban design focused on safety.
“We can build cities that facilitate crime or to avoid it,” said the expert, showing different examples of how in the UK have been redesigned some public transport stations and corners, to make them more open and bright, and through the installation of simple structures that make uncomfortable offenders gathering.
