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More than 50 members of the Association of Senior Volunteers have participated in the safety briefing in which they learned basic recommendations for avoiding scams and avoid having strangers intimate questions, or disclose personal data in public places
Ensure the care and safety of the elderly is the goal that has been off the program protect our elders, developing the Local Police in collaboration with the departments of Safety and Social Services of the City of Cartagena .
Among the specific activities of this project, local police this morning has given a safety briefing in the Local seniors Calle Juan Fernandez, addressed to the Senior Volunteer Association.
Around 50 elderly people have come to the conference by the head of the Judicial Protection of Victims (SJPV) of the local police, told them how to avoid becoming victims of crime and informed them of the special program Local Police for the vulnerable.
Avoid having strangers intimate questions, since you can always be a third person who can absorb these data for scams, protect their personal belongings in public places and not to trust strangers, are some basic security recommendations that have been learned in chat.
The Local police official also has warned of e staf more common and have released some specific recommendations
people living alone as saving s attention when opening the door to people who identify themselves as repair services and maintenance and to ask to spend indoors.
After the talk some of the attendees were also able to ask questions, and share some experiences that have happened to trust strangers and do not take protective action.
The conference attendees also play in future an important role in reporting, because as explained in charge of the talk is intended that from this moment that they themselves tell their neighbors and friends learned all recommendations .
Within this safety awareness program, seniors who wish may participate in a visit to the Security Park to learn in a practical way what are the concrete actions carried out since the police received a distress call to which it intervenes.
ACTIONS OF THE POLICE TO LOCAL
This conference aims to know the major actions of the police and the tools at their disposal if they are victims of abuse or crime.
The talk has centered on methods to prevent antisocial behavior that take advantage of the vulnerability of the elderly and to teach more than the main tool to control the abuse is self-protection.
The program will protect our elders also includes home visits at least once a week, to check the status of people living alone and who voluntarily have been included in the program.
Also, help raise awareness to the residents of these people to collaborate in their care and reduce the level of vulnerability, as well as to inform social services and health centers situations of vulnerability or risk of older people.
OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS
This action is included within the Victim Protection Programme, which aims to strengthen security measures at vulnerable groups are also older people, women victims of domestic violence, immigrants, minors who play truancy and people risk of social exclusion.
To do this, the local police Cartagena acquired a new tool with the creation of the Judicial Protection of Victims (SJPV), which works exclusively on the protection, assistance and support for these vulnerable people, which advise on instruments available in the various specialized services such as the Department of Women and the Municipal Institute of Social Services.
Within the Victim Protection Program will develop new talks aimed at all vulnerable groups mentioned in order to reduce your risk of vulnerability.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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